Excerpts From Chapter 3: The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths

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1.	Prologue Rain 01:08	buy track
2.	A Trail Of Wind And Fire 05:39	buy track
3.	Second Born Child 03:17	buy track
4.	Tokyo Music Experience 03:28	buy track
5.	The Rise And Fall Of The Plague 06:18	buy track
6.	Another Year 01:50	buy track
7.	Fragments 04:46	buy track
8.	The Disappearance Of Dr. Duplicate 02:11	buy track
9.	Excerpt From Chapter 3 01:22	buy track
10.	Where Is My Dream? 03:52	buy track
11.	Part One: The Long Drought 02:23	buy track
12.	Part Two: Crossing The Desert 06:21	buy track
13.	Epilogue: Big Poisonous Shadows 02:42	buy track

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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-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.
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released January 29, 2021

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Rats on Rafts Rotterdam, Netherlands

The band swear spiritual allegiance to the Rotterdam's New Wave, Pop and Punk scenes with one proviso, the weirder the better.

Rats have been together for a few years and, after boring themselves into finally getting good, they embarked on a phase which is slowly seeing them recognized as something a bit special by their own countrymen. ... more

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May 19

Cul De Sac

Tilburg, Netherlands
Jun 04

Neushoorn

Leeuwarden, Netherlands
Jun 08

Hedon

Zwolle, Netherlands
Sep 17

De Oosterpoort

Groningen, Netherlands
Nov 10

TivoliVredenburg

Utrecht, Netherlands

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