1 Prologue: Rain
2 A Trail Of Wind And Fire
3 Second Born Child
4 Tokyo Music Experience
5 The Rise And Fall Of The Plague
6 Another Year
7 Fragments
8 The Disappearance Of Dr. Duplicate
9 Excerpt Taken From Chapter 3
10 Where Is My Dream?
11 Part One: The Long Drought
12 Part Two: Crossing The Desert
13 Epilogue: Big Poisonous Shadows
Excerpts From Chapter 3 (Deluxe Edition)
Prologue : Rain (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
A Trail Of Wind & Fire (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
Second Born Child (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
The Rise & Fall Of The Plague (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
Tokyo Music Experience (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
Excerpt From Chapter 3 (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
Part One: The Long Drought (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
Part Two: Crossing The Desert (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
Another Year (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
Fragments (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
Osaka (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
The Disappearance of Dr. Duplicate (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
Where Is My Dream? (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
Epilogue: Big Poisonous Shadows (Live at TivoliVredenburg 2021)
Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths
Rats On Rafts
29th January 2021 - Album - FIRE587
The third album from Dutch punk-laced noiseniks adds new maturity and a conceptual feel that pulls the extremes of their sound together. A psyche-fuelled journey into the id punctuated with rhythmic kabuki modal mood swings, thunderstorms, digital beeps, traffic noise, and just plain old beautiful cacophonous reverb-drenched sound when needed.
- Standard Edition LP: Deluxe origami fold out sleeve.
- Limited DINKED EDITION available from HERE. DARK GREEN vinyl, Deluxe Origami Sleeve, Bonus 7″ with exclusive B Side & DINKED Obi Strip, DL card. LTD to 400.
- ‘Excerpts From Chapter 3’ Deluxe ltd edition LIVE album (500 copies only) vinyl and digital release
£12.00 – £25.00
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Limited DINKED EDITION available from HERE.
The third album from Dutch punk-laced noiseniks adds new maturity and a conceptual feel that pulls the extremes of their sound together. A psyche-fuelled journey into the id punctuated with rhythmic kabuki modal mood swings, thunderstorms, digital beeps, traffic noise, and just plain old beautiful cacophonous reverb-drenched sound when needed.
The ‘third chapter’ refers to the last five years that the Dutch band have spent creating their “difficult” third album. Each song spins a yarn; there are plagues, dreams, wind and fire, ‘mythical’ characters, and the search for the secret government warehouse. Lead single, Tokyo Music Experience, resonates with a conveyor belt-propelled modal guitar, reflecting the halcyon days of Japanese super-productivity; a mesmerising mantra, infected with news bulletin on-the-hour bleeps underlining its time-sensitive nature; a pristine super-commercial anthem to drive loyalty and reinforce solidarity with the party!
Having been described as creating “underground noise with a bracing, warped pop appeal” (Mojo), their new album is a coming-of-age post-punk classic with a unique worldview – inspired by Van Dyke Parks (Song Cycle) Scott Walker (3 & 4), Moondog (Elpmas), White Noise (An Electric Storm) and Beach Boys (Smile).
If their previous effort (Tape Hiss) was their very own sketch of a sketch for an incomplete concept album, a noisy reaction to their previous life, then ‘Excerpts From Chapter 3..’, with all its interlaced intricacies, is the realisation of their transition from punk-spiked-pop to psyche-pop protagonists.
Evolving, testing, infectious…
“Often totally enveloped in a cacophony of noisy abrasions that transition from one track to the next.” AllMusic
“Rats On Rafts is a band that takes no prisoners and who plough their own distinctive furrow and for that they have to be congratulated” Louder Than War
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Limited DINKED EDITION available from HERE.
The third album from Dutch punk-laced noiseniks adds new maturity and a conceptual feel that pulls the extremes of their sound together. A psyche-fuelled journey into the id punctuated with rhythmic kabuki modal mood swings, thunderstorms, digital beeps, traffic noise, and just plain old beautiful cacophonous reverb-drenched sound when needed.
The ‘third chapter’ refers to the last five years that the Dutch band have spent creating their “difficult” third album. Each song spins a yarn; there are plagues, dreams, wind and fire, ‘mythical’ characters, and the search for the secret government warehouse. Lead single, Tokyo Music Experience, resonates with a conveyor belt-propelled modal guitar, reflecting the halcyon days of Japanese super-productivity; a mesmerising mantra, infected with news bulletin on-the-hour bleeps underlining its time-sensitive nature; a pristine super-commercial anthem to drive loyalty and reinforce solidarity with the party!
Having been described as creating “underground noise with a bracing, warped pop appeal” (Mojo), their new album is a coming-of-age post-punk classic with a unique worldview – inspired by Van Dyke Parks (Song Cycle) Scott Walker (3 & 4), Moondog (Elpmas), White Noise (An Electric Storm) and Beach Boys (Smile).
If their previous effort (Tape Hiss) was their very own sketch of a sketch for an incomplete concept album, a noisy reaction to their previous life, then ‘Excerpts From Chapter 3..’, with all its interlaced intricacies, is the realisation of their transition from punk-spiked-pop to psyche-pop protagonists.
Evolving, testing, infectious…
“Often totally enveloped in a cacophony of noisy abrasions that transition from one track to the next.” AllMusic
“Rats On Rafts is a band that takes no prisoners and who plough their own distinctive furrow and for that they have to be congratulated” Louder Than War
