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Ratboys - Happy Birthday, Ratboy [Limited Edition BLACK & MAROON GALAXYColor Vinyl]

Ratboys - Happy Birthday, Ratboy [Limited Edition BLACK & MAROON GALAXYColor Vinyl]

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In 2011 Chicago's Ratboys put out their first collection of songs. The Ratboy EP, consisting of five indie-folk dorm room recordings, was free to download on Bandcamp and humbly passed around to friends on social media. Cut to 2021, and Ratboys would normally be celebrating their 10-year anniversary on the road, playing a mix of songs from their very first release to their most recent, 2020's critically-acclaimed Printer's Devil. Instead, just two weeks after the album's February 2020 release and mere days before heading out on their first headline tour, the COVID-19 pandemic forced all touring to a halt. Despite not being able to play in-person shows for the past year, Ratboys has managed to stay busy by performing their music online via their own Virtual Tour series and by finding a different way to celebrate their first decade of being a band.

Lots of time at home gave Ratboys a chance to hit the studio, which has led to Happy Birthday, Ratboy, a surprise party of a new album featuring 10 brand new recordings of the band's earliest songs plus a newly-written bonus track entitled "Go Outside." Although written in 2019, the lyrics of "Go Outside" take on a special sense of relevance and yearning today more than ever. "It's this carefree and wistful, totally innocent folk song about wanting to travel and spend time with loved ones," songwriter Julia Steiner says. "We had no idea how much it would mean to us when we wrote it, but hopefully this song will provide a light in someone's day and help us all wait out this weird ride a little bit longer."

New recordings of the five original Ratoby EP songs make up the A-side of the record, with five new versions of rare college-era tracks and the newly-written "Go Outside" on the B-side. Featuring mainstays from their live show over the years, including "The Stanza'' and "Space Blows," pressed to vinyl for the first time and given the full band treatment, Happy Birthday, Ratboy introduces new Ratboys fans to the band's beginnings while also raising a toast to those who've been there from the start.

  1. The Stanza
  2. Down The River
  3. Intense Judgment
  4. Key
  5. At 39 is Annie the Oldest Cat
  6. Space Blows
  7. Collected
  8. Cacao to Cacao
  9. Have a Heart
  10. 88 Fingers Edward
  11. Go Outside (bonus track)

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Care Instructions

Keep away from the sun.

Never place it next to a Justin Bieber record.

Treat it like your grandma, you know if she was a record. Know what I mean? Tender care, don't talk back, and never interupt during Murder She Wrote. Wait - what the hell was I writing about-

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