ExpressMilwaukee.com Review
By: Angelina Krahn - expressmilwaukee.com

A pair of guitarists and sometime percussionists who combine heavy sampling and live instruments to create a hybrid form that is solely instrumental, Ratatat's Evan Mast and Mike Stroud make music that is infectiously danceable, and most engaging when played loud, live and in public. Ratatat's Monday night performance at Turner Hall made even the most unlikely, awkward dancers gesticulate wildly and hop about with one fist pumping the air. One of the more enthusiastically received tracks was "Mirando," from their latest album, LP3. Like most of Ratatat's oeuvre, "Mirando" is looped and heavily sampled, a dub tapestry laced with Stroud's twangy guitar licks and pounding, arid percussion. Sequences from Predator were projected behind the band, edited in Read More...