Man, those two first Ratatat albums had such a great sound. I’m not quite sure how they created it but I saw them play in a little club in London and it was every bit as full and textured as on the albums. I have a recording of the gig somewhere.
Share it kindly, I’m pleading you.
I think their sound was created by time reversing guitar notes? I was never clear how it would be possible to play that live?
when I saw them live ~18 years ago they made heavy use of gradual fade ins (swells) with an ernie ball volume pedal, it does have a similar sound to a reverse delay effect.
Yeah, that was about the same time when I saw them. From memory they just looked like your standard 3 piece but had those lovely backwards sounding swells. I recall being really surprised because it sounds like the sort of thing you’d struggle to do live.
Such an actually underrated band. That album, Classics, as well as their entire discography is a work of art.
The way they layer sounds is so intricate and dynamic, it pulls you in from the start and keeps you hooked with every listen.