New Music Albums: DEEP BELOW (Rats on Rafts)

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Artist:
Rats on Rafts

Genre:
Pop/Rock
Alternative/Indie Rock
Post-Punk Revival
Dream Pop
Goth Rock

Total Time:
41:00

Record Label:
Fire Records

Purchasing Links:
MP3, Vinyl, Apple Music

Release Date
February 7, 2025




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Product Description: Rats on Rafts descend further into the brooding wasteland on their new album ‘Deep Below’, a darker, slower, eroded sound from the Rotterdam band. Highlighting different shades within the monochrome landscape compared to their previous, more colourful albums: they dive deeper into their psyche, questioning our relationships with nature, religion and each other. Echoes of The Cure, Cocteau Twins and Slowdive seem present yet so many different influences make up an album that only they could create. It sees Rats on Rafts coming of age whilst raising their heads from the underground. Forever drifting into new territory, ‘Deep Below’ is certainly their darkest and most cohesive work to date. True to their analogue recording process, the tape machines, reverbs, echoes and vital new ingredients: the Soundcraft 1s mixing desk (Used by Lee Perry) and the eerie sounding Eminent String Ensemble synth all amplify the authentic sounds of the 1980’s without sounding like a relic. ‘Japanese Medicine’ is a haunting minor chord piece driven by debris of icy chiming guitars, galloping drums and waves of lush synths. lyrically it gathers memories of teenage friendship, littered with cigarettes, life-changing records, punctuated with the dark thoughts and the demons they summon up. Though the band have kept the songs relatively slow-paced and sparse, deeper ruminations of mortality and alienation creep through the cracks. ‘Nature Breaks’, the most propulsive song on the record, thematically locks into this notion, as Fagan meditates on human impulse in the face of abject survival, and how those situations often unlock one's true self.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Afterworld (03:00)

2 . Japanese Medicine (05:38)

3 . All These Things (04:01)

4 . Hibernation (05:04)

5 . Voiceprint (03:31)

6 . The Day Before (05:15)

7 . eep Below (04:42)

8 . Nature Breaks (03:46)

9 .Sleepwalking (06:24)

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