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Album Review: Ratatat - Magnifique

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"Back to basics with mixes mainly comprised of bone-rattling bass, insistent beats and melodic guitar riffery."

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Four years in the making, Ratatat finally reemerge with an album that’s simply Magnifique.

The indie-dance duo get back to basics with mixes mainly comprised of bone-rattling bass, insistent beats and melodic guitar riffery, keeping the synth gimmickry to a minimum. The compressed aesthetic of this album washes over as somewhat Daft Punk-esque. Nonetheless they know how to ‘freak the funk’ and work a nasty groove that aggressively stomps all over the dancefloor to brilliant effect. An expansive and reverential cover of Springwater’s spaced-out I Will Return rounds off a fine comeback.