Ratboys have introduced a brand new album titled Singin’ to an Empty Chair. The follow-up to 2023’s The Window lands on February 6 through New West Information. It consists of the beforehand launched single ‘Mild Evening Mountains All That’, one of many finest songs of September, in addition to a nervy, infectious new monitor referred to as ‘Wherever’. Take a look at its Bobby Butterscotch-directed video beneath.
Ratboys vocalist/guitarist Julia Steiner wrote many of the songs on the brand new album after attending remedy for the primary time, which opened up a dialogue with a liked one from whom she’s estranged. The band recorded it with co-producer Chris Walla at numerous studios, together with Electrical Audio in Chicago and Rosebud Studio in Evanston, Illinois.
“We recorded the songs in all these completely different locations, so we approached it in a means the place completely different songs had completely different scenes,” Steiner defined. “Sure components of songs had been recorded in several areas, and we swap forwards and backwards between them all through the document to assist inform the story of every tune.”
“The expertise of constructing this document positively provides me hope for no matter occurs subsequent,” Steiner added. “There are many good days, days crammed with friendship and love, after which there are days after I dwell on issues and desperately wish to bridge the hole. It’s my entire life, you realize? So, for me, this document is a doc of all of these days stitched collectively, like a quilt in a time capsule, simply ready to get dug up when the time is correct.”
Revisit our Artist Highlight interview with Ratboys.
ingin’ to an Empty Chair Cowl Paintings:
Singin’ to an Empty Chair Tracklist:
1. Open Up
2. Know You Then
3. Mild Evening Mountains All That
4. Wherever
5. Penny within the Lake
6. Unusual Love
7. The World, So Madly
8. Simply Need You to Know the Fact
9. What’s Proper?
10. Burn It Down
11. At Peace within the Hundred Acre Wooden
