GN
Inventive, rough-edged, and darkly witty at times, their second record is thoughtful, tender, and incisive at every turn.
Led by founding members Julia Steiner and David Sagan, Ratboys began life as an acoustic duo, plugged in and expanded to a borderline raucous four-piece, then settled into a copacetic middle ground with their full-length debut, AOID, released in 2015.
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.