Ratboys - Singin' to an Empty Chair 2xLP (Black Vinyl with Etched D-Side)

Despite its title, Ratboys' album Singin’ to an Empty Chair isn’t defined by what’s missing. Rather, it’s the beginning of an important dialogue with a close loved one vocalist/guitarist Julia Steiner finds herself estranged from. The music on the band’s sixth studio album – its first for New West Records – fills the space that person left behind with 11 songs showcasing Ratboys' twangy, effervescent, as confident as they’ve ever been, and more emotionally interrogative than ever before. If the band’s last record, 2023’s widely-praised The Window, was "a level-up record,” then Singin’ to an Empty Chair is Ratboys at the peak of their powers.

Double Black Vinyl with Etched D-Side out on New West.

1. Open Up
2. Know You Then
3. Light Night Mountains All That
4. Anywhere
5. Penny in the Lake
6. Strange Love
7. The World, So Madly
8. Just Want You to Know the Truth
9. What’s Right?
10. Burn It Down
11. At Peace in the Hundred Acre Wood