GN

[Stones Throw]

Inventive, rough-edged, and darkly witty at times, their second record is thoughtful, tender, and incisive at every turn.

Ratboys' latest effort, GN, short for goodnight, is not quite the sleepy-time record that its name suggests. Instead, the Chicago-based grou...

The ironic universality of American teenage fiction is admirable. Characters cry "nobody gets me," as we sit at home, headphones on, nodding in agreement; blind to the irony.

'GN' by Ratboys, album review by Adam Williams. The full-length is now out via Top Shelf Records. Ratboys, play June 30th in Chicago.