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Ratatat - LP3
| Thephoenix | | After two albums of Queen-worthy guitars sighing and heaving over beats that sound like handclaps caught in a vacuum cleaner, the Ratatat æsthetic should, by now, be exhausted. Classics perfected the instrumental glitch pop of the homonymous debut from Mike Stroud and Evan Mast, but it left little room for growth. On the deceptively titled LP3, however, Ratatat go outside their comfort zone, replacing a lot of the epic metal riffage with zither, tablas, harpsichord, and a host of assorted pianos and keyboards. The result is some kind of cosmic machine music, reflecting not just a stoner’s world of internalized minimalist headbanging but an entire universe of culture, texture, and possibility....full text |
| | Prefixmag | | On their eponymous debut, the members of Ratatat made their guitars sound like synthesizers, and the resultant electro/hip-hip/rock hybrid made them instant darlings of the blogosphere. They expanded on their sound for 2006's Classics, which scored them an opening slot for Daft Punk and a subsequent world tour. LP3 marks a further departure from their original method. For this recording, the duo retreated to “Old Soul,” a supposedly haunted house in Catskill, New York, for forty days and forty nights. In addition to its supernatural inhabitants, the studio housed an array of keyboard instruments, from a grand piano to a harpsichord....full text |
| | Pitchforkmedia | | There's something fascinating about the mercenary nature of soundtrack library music-- pay-per-use stuff that is composed behind the simple idea of a generating an aesthetic mood; music designed to make your brand cooler or your TV show more action-packed without having to rely on the pre-existing memories that come with, say, a Who song. Despite the fact that there's nothing inherently commercialized about their club-music-skewing instrumental electronic rock, Ratatat seem to have been slotted into this very purpose over the course of their career, to the point where the same song of theirs-- "Gettysburg", from their 2006 album Classics-- has been used to score both a Nylon.com Marc Jacobs fashion show feature and a GOOD Magazine animated video on the nuclear arms race. Aside from what visual or informational stimulus someone else augments Ratatat's music with, there isn't really that much content there-- or, conversely, there's potential for the music to be and sound like anything but no one discernable identity....full text |
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