LP4 is the follow up (belive it or not) to 2008's LP3. Apparently the material for this latest collection was conceived during the very same sessions that birthed this instrumental duo's third album, released back in 2008. To explain the delay between these two releases, you need only take a glance at what band members Evan Mast and Matt Stroud have been up to over the last couple of years: in addition to extensively touring the globe, these two got themselves embroiled in bonafide hip-hop production and generally finding themselves gaining richly deserved recognition from the mainstream.

Ratatat’s is the duo’s first to be recorded with a full string section (at Glassworks Studios, Manhattan) It features numerous film samples, one from Werner Herzog’s Stroszek, the others all courtesy of Linda Manz, the child actress who achieved cult status on the back of her role in Terence Mallick’s Days of Heaven. The strings are rich and cinematic, highlighting the duo could have a fine career in movie scores ahead of them.

In fact, it kind of sounds like the soundtrack to the yet to be made Sebastien Tellier biopic.

Bilar
Drugs
Neckbrace
We Can't Be Stopped
Bob Gandhi
Mandy
Mahalo
Party With Children
Sunblocks
Bare Feast
Grape Juice City
Alps





one of the year’s most expansive, rich and frequently rewarding (albums) - FACT