Rats on Rafts

Dutch indie quartet Rats about Rafts shaped in 2005, taking impact from fresh influx and post-punk rings like Echo & the Bunnymen, the Teardrop Explodes, and fellow countrymen the Former mate. The Rotterdam-based group includes people David Fagan (vocals, acoustic guitar), Arnoud Verheul (acoustic guitar), Florian Veenhuis (bass), and Joris Frowein (drums). A self-released EP known as SUCH A LONG TIME, and Thanks for all your Fish found its way to 2008, nonetheless it was a 2010 cover of Dutch fresh wave music group Kiem’s solitary “The Moneyman” that offered them their 1st break. Rats on Rafts authorized with indie Subroutine Information release a their debut recording, The Moon Can be Big, in 2011 and had been eventually found by Universal-affiliated TopNotch Information, which reissued it countrywide the following yr. Their even more experimental follow-up, Tape Hiss, found its way to 2015 and received worldwide exposure because of British indie Open fire Records.