Hearing the eponymous Ratatat debut LP for the first time as a fresh-faced 18 year old is something that will stay with me for all my days. Like nothing I had ever heard before, the shock, the awe, ...

Guitarist Mike Stroud and producer Evan Mast have practically come full circle. Leaving behind the darker, sparse elements of 2010’s LP4, the noodly guitar and synthesiser duo crank up the noise and ...

Ratatat recorded "LP3" in a ghost-ridden house in upstate New York called Old Soul Studios, owned by a fedora-wearing music fanatic who goes by the name "The Wolf." "There was definitely a crazy ...

With Brooklyn addresses, plaid shirts and a whole lot of hair, you could be fn for thinking Ratatat's Evan Mast and Mike Stroud are the latest outfit coming off New York's production line of hip. But ...

Evan Mast, or E*vax, is an electronic music artist. He and his brother E*rock run the Audio Dregs record label. His first album, Parking Lot Music, was released on 04 April 2001. Mast’s music is ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... What would happen if a pair of baroque composers were flung two centuries ahead of their time into a world of fuzz boxes, drum pads and holograms? That’s not ...

When your music has no lyrics but your audience includes the dance-averse, a live show poses a challenge. It becomes even more of one when the show is sold-out, as with Ratatat’s Saturday-night ...

In a recent interview on this very website, Kid Cudi told us he hoped to work with Ratatat, Band of Horses, and the Postal Service on his debut LP. Well, one out of three is better than none out of ...

When crafting instrumental music, artists have to convey personality and a point of view without falling back on vocals — or, more to the point, expressions of human emotion. The best, like the ...

On June 8, the Brooklyn instrumental duo Ratatat will release their fourth album, the imaginatively titled LP4, via XL. (The band told Pitchfork a little bit about the new joint here.) And now, thanks ...

With its ambitious cross-cultural rhythmic palate and the strongest melodies to date, Ratatat’s LP3 is practically begging for MCs to jack and loop a beat in order to complete the cycle. In addition ...