Uploaded November 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Out of the fog emerges a darker, slower, eroded Rats on Rafts. Highlighting different shades within the monochrome landscape compared to their previous, more colourful albums; new album ‘Deep Below’ sees them dive deeper into their psyche, questioning our relationships with nature, religion and each other. Echoes of The Cure, Cocteau Twins and Slowdive seem present yet so many different influences make up an album that only they could create. ‘Deep Below’ sees Rats on Rafts coming of age whilst raising their heads from the underground. RatsOnRafts.lnk.to/DeepBelowID

Lead single ‘Japanese Medicine’ is a haunting minor chord piece driven by debris of icy chiming guitars, galloping drums and waves of lush synths. lyrically it gathers memories of teenage friendship, littered with cigarettes, life-changing records, punctuated with the dark thoughts and the demons they summon up. David Fagan: "Japanese Medicine is aimed at a former version of myself, that person’s gone but occasionally I miss him because life seemed very promising and unpredictable."

Direction & concept: David Kleijwegt & Reinier van Brummelen
Edit & post production: Reinier van Brummelen
Camera: Jacques Laureys & Stef van Wijk
Light: Maxime Pottuit & Daan de Boer
Assistance: Lars Dimmendaal & Daniel Cross

Thanks to DDB-Lightning, Stereomaterix & Camalot

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