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Released | June 9, 2015 | |||
Studio | The Owlery, Chicago | |||
Length | 33:44 | |||
Label | Topshelf | |||
Ratboys chronology | ||||
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AOID is the debut album by American indie rock band Ratboys. It was released on 9 June 2015 on Topshelf Records.
Some songs on the album ("Charles Bernstein," "Our Mortician’s Daughter," "Postman Song") had been part of Ratboys' live shows since mid-2012. [1] The oldest song on the album is "Postman Song", which Steiner wrote in 2007, but the majority were written in 2012–2013. [1]
The album was recorded at the Owlery in Chicago at the end of 2014. [1] Steiner recorded her vocals late at night to minimize noise from the shared space they recorded in. [2] Mike Politowicz, bassist and vocalist for Dowsing, passed the recordings to Topshelf Records, who released the album on LP, CD and cassette in 2015. [1] [3]
CMJ and BrooklynVegan reviewed the album positively. [4] [5] GoldFlakePaint called the album a "gleaming, joyous, raucous display of melodic indie-rock," and included it on their "Albums of the year" list in 2015. [6] More recently Elizabeth Handgun of Swim Into the Sound wrote that Ratboys "felt so coherent and solid from their debut, it is hard to imagine improvement." [7]
Kevin Williams of the Chicago Tribune was less positive, writing that the album is "almost like a sketch...really good but feeling incomplete." [8]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "AOID" | 1:35 |
2. | "Tixis" | 3:28 |
3. | "MCMXIV" | 3:16 |
4. | "Charles Bernstein" | 5:23 |
5. | "Folk Song for Jazz" | 4:03 |
6. | "Postman Song" | 3:23 |
7. | "Our Mortician's Daughter" | 3:16 |
8. | "Bugs!" | 3:22 |
9. | "Pivotal Dates" | 2:51 |
10. | "And" | 3:03 |
Total length: | 33:44 |
AOID | ||||
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Studio album by | ||||
Released | June 9, 2015 | |||
Studio | The Owlery, Chicago | |||
Length | 33:44 | |||
Label | Topshelf | |||
Ratboys chronology | ||||
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AOID is the debut album by American indie rock band Ratboys. It was released on 9 June 2015 on Topshelf Records.
Some songs on the album ("Charles Bernstein," "Our Mortician’s Daughter," "Postman Song") had been part of Ratboys' live shows since mid-2012. [1] The oldest song on the album is "Postman Song", which Steiner wrote in 2007, but the majority were written in 2012–2013. [1]
The album was recorded at the Owlery in Chicago at the end of 2014. [1] Steiner recorded her vocals late at night to minimize noise from the shared space they recorded in. [2] Mike Politowicz, bassist and vocalist for Dowsing, passed the recordings to Topshelf Records, who released the album on LP, CD and cassette in 2015. [1] [3]
CMJ and BrooklynVegan reviewed the album positively. [4] [5] GoldFlakePaint called the album a "gleaming, joyous, raucous display of melodic indie-rock," and included it on their "Albums of the year" list in 2015. [6] More recently Elizabeth Handgun of Swim Into the Sound wrote that Ratboys "felt so coherent and solid from their debut, it is hard to imagine improvement." [7]
Kevin Williams of the Chicago Tribune was less positive, writing that the album is "almost like a sketch...really good but feeling incomplete." [8]
No. | Title | Length |
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1. | "AOID" | 1:35 |
2. | "Tixis" | 3:28 |
3. | "MCMXIV" | 3:16 |
4. | "Charles Bernstein" | 5:23 |
5. | "Folk Song for Jazz" | 4:03 |
6. | "Postman Song" | 3:23 |
7. | "Our Mortician's Daughter" | 3:16 |
8. | "Bugs!" | 3:22 |
9. | "Pivotal Dates" | 2:51 |
10. | "And" | 3:03 |
Total length: | 33:44 |