Indie rock bandet Ratboys kommer forbi Stengade d. 10 maj!

obs billetsalg starter fredag d. 6 februar kl: 10

Ratboys:
Despite its title, Ratboys’ new album Singin’ to an Empty Chair is not defined by what’s missing. Rather, it’s the beginning of an important dialogue with a close loved one vocalist Julia Steiner finds herself estranged from. The music on the band’s sixth studio album – its first for New West Records – fills the space that person left behind with 11 songs showcasing Ratboys at the peak of their powers — twangy, effervescent, as confident as they’ve ever been, and perhaps more emotionally interrogative than ever before. The four-piece Chicago band followed up 2023’s highly acclaimed The Window by reconvening with co-producer Chris Walla to begin tracking at a rural Wisconsin cabin before taking the songs to Steve Albini’s famed Electrical Audio studios in Chicago and later to Rosebud Studio in Evanston, Illinois. The results veer from bubbly power-pop on “Anywhere” to irresistible post country on “Penny in the Lake,” along with heart-piercing ballads like “Just Want You to Know the Truth” and an exhilarating detour into the extraterrestrial on “Light Night Mountains All That,” which Steiner dubs the band’s mammoth “wormhole jam.” Singin’ to an Empty Chair also marks the first Ratboys album written since Steiner began therapy, which the singer/lyricist credits for the clarity found across the album’s unflinching examinations of relationship and self. Fittingly, as the album begins by extending a hand into the void, it concludes with a scene of serenity – all while weaving candid honesty, humor, chaos, and whimsy along the way. “It's not all doom and gloom,” Steiner says. “The experience of making this record definitely gives me hope for whatever happens next.”

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+ Support: Polite
Behind Polite is singer and songwriter Karina Kaleda together with the band consisting of Anders Bak Mejlvang (bass and keys), Carl Juul Nielsen (guitar) and Morten Brok Steffensen (drums). With roots in folk and indie rock, Polite moves in a dreamy sound universe, where soft vocals and distorted guitar themes merge - an expression that has been compared in the media to Aldous Harding and The Weather Station.

The colorful soundscape contrasts with the darker lyrics, which revolve around themes such as generation gaps, existentialism and vulnerability.

After 5 stars from Gaffa and Soundvenue for the debut EP The Green House Has Been Asking About You (released in 2025 through Konkylie) and rotation on P6 and P3, Polite is ready with a new single in April.

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Entry: 155 kr in pre-sale / 175 kr at the door!
Doors at 8pm!