Always dedicated to doing things on their own terms, the internationally unknown adventures of RAT BOY have taken them from Essex and across the world: rising up the UK charts, spending time working in America with one of their all-time favourite artists Tim Armstrong (Rancid, Operation Ivy), and earning obsessive fandom in Japan. But where you’re from is an inescapable part of who you are, and the band are continually inspired by their TOWIE home county. That’s something they demonstrate with today’s release of their new single ‘ONE IN A MILLION’.
‘ONE IN A MILLION’ is a laidback ska groove which feels like a space-age version of The Specials if they had been a band of Gen Zs raised in the Essex heartlands surrounded by wheeler-dealers, dodgy geezers, and blokes who wash their Ford Mondeos religiously every Sunday morning. Frontman Jordan Cardy’s charismatically apathetic vocal delivery is the perfect tone for a song about wanting it all while making the absolute bare minimum level of effort, and it has another distinctive edge with guest vocals courtesy of cult emo rapper lil aaron. Listen HERE.
‘ONE IN A MILLION’ was produced by the renowned Stephen Street (Blur, The Smiths), who mixed together elements of the band’s initial demo and live recording to give it a naturalistic but still sleek sound.
Jordan says, “One in a million is about doing the lottery every week imagining what it would be like if you had all that nice cash”.
RAT BOY originated as Jordan Cardy’s solo project, but the more they played together, the more he loved the camaraderie, energy and the wealth of ideas that comes with being a gang, with RAT BOY now officially a band completed by Liam Haygarth (bass), Harry Todd (guitar) and Noah Booth (drums).
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