Ratatat - Classics
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Artist: RatatatEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-08-22
Music Label: Xl Recordings
Soundtracks:
- Montanita
- Lex
- Gettysburg
- Wildcat
- Tropicana
- Loud Pipes
- Kennedy
- Swisha
- Nostrand
- Tacobel Canon
Music reviews of Classics
Music Review: Plain
Rating: 3 Stars
Ratatat came to my attention in late 2004 when i chanced across "Seventeen Years," an early single. i said to myself, "if every one of their songs sounds like that, gimme moar!" Whoops I seem to have forgotten to listen to anything they produced until Classics. My bad.
Plain is the name of the game here. In Classics, Ratatat plays somber, organ-friendly chords under the most curious guitar i've ever heard. They whine and beep and creep and slither around the fretboard like I imagine some kind of fatalist arachnid might. There's a great assemblage of two-part, 8-chord progression in more than one spot, but with all this variety, i still get the impression that the songs here are perpetual downbeats, like something that rolls at the movie's ending credits... except for track 5, which sounds like Martian Beatles descending in a spacecraft.
Unfortunately, track 7 is the turning point from "plain" to "bland." The remaining songs venture beyond "subdued" and instead explore "lacking" territory. Looking back on the album as a whole, Classics struck me as behaving the same way as that song I mentioned earlier, "Seventeen Years," in which the first 60% is profound, but then gets tired and uninteresting.
Oh, what do you know, it finished playing as i finished typing.
Description of Classics
"Classics" remains resolutely instrumental, but the band has introduced a wealth of new sounds, from acoustic and slide guitar to sleigh bells and cello. Their vastly improved production and writing makes this record a refinement of their art. "Ratatat lay squealing metal harmonies over choppy Neptunes-style dance thumps, then break into pastoral waves of keyboard tone, riding dub tempos and hip-hop struts. They're crotch-pumping arena pimps and introverted minimalists..." - Blender. "Stroud and Mast have come up with some catchy melodies over light, snappy bass lines in what sounds like something tailored for the headphones" - Urb. The band has toured with Interpol, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, The Stills, and Mouse On Mars.General CDs
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