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On July 17th Ratatat releases its fifth full-length album, "Magnifique," on XL Recordings, a solid five years after Mike Stroud and Evan Mast's last release, "LP4" from 2010. Following up on the experimental sounds of "LP3" and "LP4," Ratatat return to their core guitar-driven sound on "Magnifique."
"I feel like it's our strongest record," Evan says. "We did it in spurts. We m...
Get tickets: http://ticketf.ly/1CFyAGf
https://www.facebook.com/RATATAT
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlcywgEMuGI
On July 17th Ratatat releases its fifth full-length album, "Magnifique," on XL Recordings, a solid five years after Mike Stroud and Evan Mast's last release, "LP4" from 2010. Following up on the experimental sounds of "LP3" and "LP4," Ratatat return to their core guitar-driven sound on "Magnifique."
"I feel like it's our strongest record," Evan says. "We did it in spurts. We made a few trips to different locations where we'd set up a studio and work." Mike and Evan spent time in Port Antonio, Jamaica, upstate-New York (at the same studio where "LP3" and "LP4" were recorded), Long Island, New York and at their own studio in Brooklyn. Combining the bedrock beats and primordial riffs from their first two albums with the sonic experimentation and production prowess of LP3 and LP4, Mike and Evan arrived at a new plateau with "Magnifique."
"We used to nearly always start tracks with a beat, but with this album we were often starting with melodies and adding beats and percussion after the fact," Mike says. "We were all about getting strong melodies." With more time, tools and experiences to work with, Evan and Mike created their most fully-realized album with proper "Intro" and "Outro" tracks and palette-cleansing interludes made to sound like someone tuning in music from an alternate world, often creating stark juxtapositions between lo and hi-fi sounds. "There's something cool about having those two types of sound right next to each other," Evan says, talking about their new song, "Abrasive", which, "starts off a bit grimy and shitty sounding and then slowly builds into this ultra hi-fi construction of layered guitars and keyboards. Some of the guitars were recorded an octave lower and then sped up to give them an unnatural gloss, it almost sounds like guitars on steroids. I like having that intensity and then getting down to tape hiss, where you can hear the amp that's dying as you're playing the guitar."