RATBOY’S ANNOUNCE SOPHOMORE ALBUM, RELEASE FIRST SINGLE, ‘CONTROL’

Chicago’s RATBOYS have announced their plans to release sophomore album, GN on 30th June this year through Topshelf Records. 

Drawing influence from the down-to-earth sincerity of late-90s Sheryl Crow and the confessional confidence of Kim Deal and Jenny Lewis, the songs on GN (aka ‘goodnight’) “largely detail experiences of saying goodbye, finding your way home, and then figuring out what the hell to do once you’re back,” says frontwoman Julia Steiner. 

GN ‘offers a bevy of tales, laments and triumphs, which recount near-tragedies by the train tracks, crippling episodes of loneliness, remembrances of a deceased family pet with freezer burn, and on and on’.

The songs chosen to close both sides of the record – the slow-burning Crying About the Planets and quizzical Peter the Wild Boy - unpack the respective journeys of two real people who were quite literally lost and found. “Crying tells the survival story of Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson from a first-person perspective, and Peter reflects on the life of a feral child in Germany who was eventually adopted by the King of England,” according to Steiner.

To whet the appetite the duo have released their first single from the album, Control, through The Fader - you can give that a listen down below. 

Photo credit: Johnny Fabrizio