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Ratatat ‘Magnifique’ Released Today
Ratatat ‘Magnifique’ Released Today
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Friday 17th July 2015
Today RATATAT, the duo of Evan Mast and Mike Stroud, release their fifth studio albumMagnifique via XL Recordings.
Magnifique is
available on CD & LP from:
Marbecks
JB Hi Fi
Real Groovy
And all good
record stores nationwide
Magnifique is
available from:
iTunes: http://smarturl.it/RatatatMagnifique
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Play: http://smarturl.it/RatatatMagnifique_gp
The 14-track album includes the recently released single “Cream On Chrome,” which the duo debuted during their closing, headline set at this year’s Coachella. It also includes current single 'Abrasive' - rich with the signature RATATAT guitar sound, “Abrasive” is one of the densest song’s the duo has ever made. Sometimes reaching as many as 30-layered guitars, each playing a different part but all still in harmony with each other. The animated video, directed by RATATAT’s own E.VAX, is equally as dense using over 4000 hand drawn illustrations by E.VAX, some even taken from the bands recordings sessions for Magnifique - watch the video here.
Following up on the experimental sounds of LP3 and LP4, RATATAT return to their core guitar-driven sound on Magnifique which was recorded over the course of four years in various studios in different locations including Jamaica (the country), upstate New York, Long Island, NY and their home studio in Brooklyn. The art for Magnifique includes a series of sketches drawn by Mast and Stroud during the recording sessions. What else can you expect on Magnifique: pedal steel guitar, the sound of a tiny 1940’s guitar amp found in a thrift store in Guadalajara used on “Intro,” a song named upon the discovery that the guys both had posters of a “ Countach” on their walls in junior high (the duo met in college), and a cover, their first ever, called “I Will Return” by Springwater (aka Phil Cordell).
Ratatat – Magnifique track
list:
1. Intro
2. Cream On
Chrome
3. Magnifique
4. Abrasive
5. Countach
6. Drift
7. Pricks
Of Brightness
8. Nightclub Amnesia
9. Cold
Fingers
10. Supreme
11. Rome
12. Primetime
13. I
Will
Return
14. Outro***
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