The Rats are back ! No kids . I'm not talking about the Boomtown Rats. I mean Chicagos' Ratboys. Frequent suspects on It Starts With a Birthstone going back over ten years and six albim and planting a flag early in 2026 with latest album Singin ' To an Empty Chair.
It's an object of purity and wonder. Ratboys specialise in moments like these. They approach songs like articles lifted from a desk and help up to th elight and observe and assess from a range of angles. Shaking a snowglobe. Holding up a child's kaleidoscope and re-experiencing the wonder of being a child.
Another early contender . 2026 is only forty days in and already I have 30 LPs on My Albums of the Year playlist. We may not have made it to Spring technically but judging by this we have a collective spring in our step. Ratboys continue to punch above their weight and be contenders. This is a blistering record. Last Splash meet Courtney Barnett at the crossroads. And the consequence was; a fine time being had by one and all.
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