5 a long time with out a check out to Baltimore is way too many for any band that understands the place and its insatiable craving for stay new music.
It experienced been that lengthy given that Ratboys produced their way to the Charm Metropolis, but the Chicago-dependent indie rock outfit manufactured up for it a short while ago with a bought-out, blasting overall performance at Ottobar — a location properly suited to the reducing-edge appears that this four-piece team has sharpened due to the fact forming again in 2010.
Ratboys began at the College of Notre Dame when then-college students Julia Steiner and Dave Sagan fulfilled and began composing tunes jointly. It now characteristics Steiner as direct vocalist and on guitar, Sagan enjoying lead guitar, Sean Neumann on bass and backup vocals, and Marcus Nuccio playing drums, and the group has 5 studio albums to its title, which includes 2023’s The Window.
Listen to Ratboys’ 2023 studio album, The Window, via Spotify:
Doing tracks from the most recent report and additional, Ratboys is at present touring like it generally does: with another proficient band. At Ottobar, the night of April 4 gave ticketholders the possibility to get pleasure from not just just one excellent Terrific Lakes act, but two, as Ducks Ltd. out of Toronto opened the remarkably anticipated — and in Ratboys’ case, prolonged overdue — exhibit with its possess thrilling set of primary songs.
Liten to Ducks Ltd.’s new album, Harm’s Way, by using Spotify:
Ratboys Setlist
Building Sounds for the Types You Enjoy
Early morning Zoo
It’s Alive!
Elvis is in the Freezer
I Want You
Charles Bernstein
Go Outdoors
Crossed That Line
Area Blows
Now Way
The Window
I Go Out at Evening
Empty
Crack
Black Earth, WI
Negative Response
Alien with a Snooze Mask On
Appear To
Ducks Ltd. Setlist
How Lonely Are You?
Prepare Complete of Gasoline
On Our Way to the Rave
Cathedral Metropolis
Deleted Scenes
Hollowed Out
Heavy Bag/The Principal Point
Below the Rolling Moon
Beneath are handspun, property-made and scanned 35mm film photos of Ratboys and Ducks Ltd. performing at Ottobar in Baltimore the evening of April 4, 2024. All photographs copyright and courtesy of Casey Ryan Vock.
Ducks Ltd.
