Rats on Rafts return with brand new music since 2021’s acclaimed album Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths. Currently preparing for the release of their fourth album set for release in 2025. Rats on Rafts’ new single Hibernation was recorded in their own studio in Rotterdam and will be released via Fire Records.
You might say Rotterdam’s Rats on Rafts relationship with the past is complicated. Especially as a band never too keen on looking back. The revered punk rock experimentalists still remain highly unconcerned being called the harbingers of the quote-unquote Dutch Invasion – an increasing number of refractory bands from The Netherlands making noise overseas.
The Rats’ proclivity for things eroded by the decay of time has remained a constant in their rigorous hands-on ethos. The Moon Is Big (2011) Tape Hiss (2015) and Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths (2021) are truly gripping timestamps of a band refusing to give in to the supposed ‘progress of the world’ – first as hungry punk rock upstarts, then as fiery analogue recording dogmatists, and psych-rock protagonists. Instead of moving along with these volatile currents, Rats on Rafts stubbornly stand their ground in the subterranean hollows where their creativity always seems to thrive.
In February the band will tour throuhought the UK, and in March they’ll come back for shows in The Netherlands.