I saw Ratatat at Coachella on the advice of my good friend Josh (from Tapes N Tapes), and I’m glad I did. It’s two guitarists and a keyboard wizard, and they make instrumental video game trance music for stoners. And it’s awesome.
The one knock on Ratatat is that their songs are remarkably samey: mid-tempo drum machine beats covered with layers of repeated guitar lines and synth arpeggios. Rinse. Repeat. The formula works pretty well, though, so I suppose I can’t fault these guys for sticking with it.
My favorite song on either album is “Seventeen Years” from 2004’s Ratatat. After listening to both albums, it’s sort of the distillation of their sound. The guitar parts are loud and pleasantly fuzzy. I could play this for just about anybody. It’s hard to pick out individual songs, though, because both records play really well as complete albums. It almost helps to think of them as symphonies with 10 or 12 movements apiece.
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