“Rat Saw God is an album about riding a bike down a suburban stretch in Greensboro while listening to My Bloody Valentine for the first time on an iPod Nano, past a creek that runs through the neighborhood riddled with broken glass bottles and condoms, a front yard filled with broken and rusted car parts, a lonely and dilapidated house reclaimed by kudzu. Four Lokos and rodeo clowns and a kid who burns down a corn field. Roadside monuments, church marquees, poppers and vodka in a plastic water bottle, the shit you get away with at Jewish summer camp, strange sentimental family heirlooms at the thrift stores. The way the South hums alive all night in the summers and into fall, the sound of high school football games, the halo effect from the lights polluting the darkness. It’s not really bright enough to see in front of you, but in that stretch of inky void – somehow – you see everything.”
Can’t wait until Friday - they’ve been inching towards an honest to god masterpiece over the last few albums (especially if you include MJ Lenderman’s from last year). I feel this one might just put them there…
Had my first go of RSG on a short drive today. This band can do no wrong. Looking forward to getting stuck into it proper next week. Other than Bull Believer this one really stood out
Gave this a go based on all the recent praise. I expected to bounce off it, but no this is brilliant. Very impressive first listen and immediately going on repeat.