CD-Charts Position 1
Average Rating:

LP3

by: Ratatat

Release Date July 08, 2008
If you already own anything by these guys then you'll recognize the sound. This album grows a little bit more than previous releases. A lot more layering. Lots of reversed tracks to make for an eerie feel.

Overall positive vibe for the album. I still listen to it a few times a week.

Best part this record comes with a MP3 download code! Good for 3 downloads of a 76.9mb zip file

CD-Charts Position 2
Average Rating:

Classics

by: Ratatat

Release Date August 22, 2006
Ratatat came to my attention in late 2004 when i chanced across "Seventeen Years," an early single. i said to myself, "if every one of their songs sounds like that, gimme moar!" Whoops I seem to have forgotten to listen to anything they produced until Classics. My bad.
Plain is the name of the game here. In Classics, Ratatat plays somber, organ-friendly chords under the most curious guitar i've ever heard. They whine and beep and creep and slither around the fretboard like I imagine some kind of fatalist arachnid might. There's a great assemblage of two-part, 8-chord progression in more than one spot, but with all this variety, i still get the impression that the songs here are perpetual downbeats, like something that rolls at the movie's ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 3
Average Rating:

Ratatat

by: Ratatat

Release Date April 20, 2004
This is the most intelligent electronica I've heard. Each track slowly but steadily evolves and changes as it plays. It's not terribly obvious or 'in your face music,' it takes some listening to appreciate.

CD-Charts Position 4
Average Rating:

LP3

by: Ratatat

Release Date July 08, 2008
If you already own anything by these guys then you'll recognize the sound. This album grows a little bit more than previous releases. A lot more layering. Lots of reversed tracks to make for an eerie feel.

Overall positive vibe for the album. I still listen to it a few times a week.

Best part this record comes with a MP3 download code! Good for 3 downloads of a 76.9mb zip file

CD-Charts Position 5
Average Rating:

CLASSICS

by: RATATAT

Release Date September 12, 2006
Ratatat came to my attention in late 2004 when i chanced across "Seventeen Years," an early single. i said to myself, "if every one of their songs sounds like that, gimme moar!" Whoops I seem to have forgotten to listen to anything they produced until Classics. My bad.
Plain is the name of the game here. In Classics, Ratatat plays somber, organ-friendly chords under the most curious guitar i've ever heard. They whine and beep and creep and slither around the fretboard like I imagine some kind of fatalist arachnid might. There's a great assemblage of two-part, 8-chord progression in more than one spot, but with all this variety, i still get the impression that the songs here are perpetual downbeats, like something that rolls at the movie's ending credits... ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 6
Average Rating:

Lp3

from: Phantom Sound & Vision

Release Date July 29, 2008
Ratatat came to my attention in late 2004 when i chanced across "Seventeen Years," an early single. i said to myself, "if every one of their songs sounds like that, gimme moar!" Whoops I seem to have forgotten to listen to anything they produced until Classics. My bad.
Plain is the name of the game here. In Classics, Ratatat plays somber, organ-friendly chords under the most curious guitar i've ever heard. They whine and beep and creep and slither around the fretboard like I imagine some kind of fatalist arachnid might. There's a great assemblage of two-part, 8-chord progression in more than one spot, but with all this variety, i still get the impression that the songs here are perpetual downbeats, like something that rolls at the movie's ending credits... ... Read More:

CD-Charts Position 7
Average Rating:

Germany to Germany

by: Ratatat

Release Date
Ratatat came to my attention in late 2004 when i chanced across "Seventeen Years," an early single. i said to myself, "if every one of their songs sounds like that, gimme moar!" Whoops I seem to have forgotten to listen to anything they produced until Classics. My bad.
Plain is the name of the game here. In Classics, Ratatat plays somber, organ-friendly chords under the most curious guitar i've ever heard. They whine and beep and creep and slither around the fretboard like I imagine some kind of fatalist arachnid might. There's a great assemblage of two-part, 8-chord progression in more than one spot, but with all this variety, i still get the impression that the songs here are perpetual downbeats, like something that rolls at the movie's ending credits... ... Read More: