RAT BOY have recorded in Los Angeles with Tim Armstrong of Rancid, played festivals as far afield as Japan and China, and toured North America with The Interrupters. Yet for all those globe-trotting adventures, there’s no place you know quite as well as home. That’s the central topic that RAT BOY explore on their upcoming third album ‘SUBURBIA CALLING’, which will be released on October 4th via Hellcat. The band have launched an official video for their recent single ‘BADMAN’.
Sonically pulling on the sounds of Brit pop, 90s indie and classic melodicism, with a little scattering of 2-Tone’s propulsive grooves in there too, SUBURBIA CALLING is a record paying homage to true British greats at the same time as pushing things forward. As we’ve already heard from the recent singles ‘ONE IN A MILLION’ (think an intergalactic take on The Specials featuring lil aaron, a track premiered by Ska Punk Daily) and the title track ‘SUBURBIA CALLING’ (a big beatBlur, or a Brit pop-era The Streets) it’s an album of many different shades. Those shades take on even more varied hues with the new single ‘BADMAN’. Mixing jangly indie-pop, rousing brass and infectious gang-call “heys!”, it’s a bright, sun-kissed sound that looks at the dark underbelly of the kind of small-town gangsters that plague towns across Essex and the wider UK. It’s a lifestyle that people live and die by, and when one inevitably meets a bleak fate it’s only ever going to be a matter of time before the next pretender is trying to assert their dominance.
‘SUBURBIA CALLING’ is now available to pre-order / pre-save HERE.
‘SUBURBIA CALLING’
tracklist:
- MOB
2. RUDY’S WORLD
4. BEST IS YET TO COME
5. EVERY LITTLE HELPS
7. BADMAN
8. SHE’S THE ONE
9. ESSEX LAND
10. HANDBAGS AT DAWN
11. DAY TRIP TO LONDON
12. BOY WONDER
13. TAKE MY PLACE
