Ratatat (album)

Ratatat is the debut album from the Brooklyn-based electronic duo of the same name. It was recorded between July 2001 and May 2003 in bassist Evan Mast's Crown Heights, Brooklyn apartment and mixed in June 2003 before its release on April 20, 2004.

ReleasedApril 20, 2004

RecordedJuly 2001 – May 2003
Evan Mast's apartment, Crown Heights, Brooklyn

Genre

• Electronica
• instrumental hip hop
• electronic rock
• experimental rock
• neo-psychedelia

Length45:25

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Ratatat
Studio album by Ratatat
Released	April 20, 2004
Recorded	July 2001 – May 2003 Evan Mast's apartment, Crown Heights, Brooklyn
Genre	Electronica instrumental hip hop electronic rock experimental rock neo-psychedelia
Length	45:25
Label	XL Recordings
Producer	Evan Mast, Mike Stroud
Ratatat chronology
Ratatat (2004) Ratatat Remixes Vol. 1 (2004)
Singles from Ratatat
"Seventeen Years" Released: 2003 "Cherry" Released: October 4, 2004

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Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	72/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	link
Pitchfork Media	(8.4/10) 4/28/04

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The album is essentially instrumental, although it has occasional voice excerpts (referred to in the liner notes as "spoken interludes") by local MC and rapper Young Churf. The track "Spanish Armada" contains a French horn played by Michal Emanovsky. Other tracks of note are "Germany to Germany", later released as a single; and "Cherry", a homage to Ratatat's original name.

The most well known song on the album is "Seventeen Years". It was featured in a television advertisement titled "Accessorize" for the Hummer H2 in 2004, in the British television show Soccer AM as the original background music for The Crossbar Challenge segment, and in Level One Productions's ski movie Shanghai Six.^[2] It was also played during Rob's party in the 2008 monster movie Cloverfield as well as Keith Hufnagel's part in the DVS skateboard video Skate More.^[3] The song "Bustelo" was used in several Jaguar commercials in mid-2006.