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AOID
Studio album by
ReleasedJune 9, 2015 (2015-06-09)
StudioThe Owlery, Chicago
Length33:44
LabelTopshelf
Ratboys chronology
AOID
(2015)
GN
(2017)

AOID is the debut album by American indie rock band Ratboys. It was released on 9 June 2015 on Topshelf Records.

Background

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Some songs on the album ("Charles Bernstein," "Our Mortician’s Daughter," "Postman Song") had been part of Ratboys' live shows since mid-2012.[1] The oldest song on the album is "Postman Song", which Steiner wrote in 2007, but the majority were written in 2012–2013.[1]

The album was recorded at the Owlery in Chicago at the end of 2014.[1] Steiner recorded her vocals late at night to minimize noise from the shared space they recorded in.[2] Mike Politowicz, bassist and vocalist for Dowsing, passed the recordings to Topshelf Records, who released the album on LP, CD and cassette in 2015.[1][3]

Critical reception

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CMJ and BrooklynVegan reviewed the album positively.[4][5] GoldFlakePaint called the album a "gleaming, joyous, raucous display of melodic indie-rock," and included it on their "Albums of the year" list in 2015.[6] More recently Elizabeth Handgun of Swim Into the Sound wrote that Ratboys "felt so coherent and solid from their debut, it is hard to imagine improvement."[7]

Kevin Williams of the Chicago Tribune was less positive, writing that the album is "almost like a sketch...really good but feeling incomplete."[8]

Track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."AOID"1:35
2."Tixis"3:28
3."MCMXIV"3:16
4."Charles Bernstein"5:23
5."Folk Song for Jazz"4:03
6."Postman Song"3:23
7."Our Mortician's Daughter"3:16
8."Bugs!"3:22
9."Pivotal Dates"2:51
10."And"3:03
Total length:33:44

Personnel

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Ratboys
  • Julia Steiner – guitar, vocals
  • Dave Sagan – guitar
  • Will Lange – bass
  • Pat Kennedy – drums
Technical
  • Seth Engel – recording, mixing
  • Matt Dewine – mastering

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Timothy Anderl (2015-06-02), "From The Horse's Mouth: Julia Steiner (Ratboys) on AOID", ghettoblastermagazine.com, Ghetto Blaster Magazine, retrieved 2024-04-15
  2. ^ Matt Mitchell (2023-06-06), "Ratboys Find Their View", pastemagazine.com, Paste, retrieved 2024-04-15
  3. ^ "AOID on the Topshelf webstore", topshelfrecords.com, Topshelf Records, archived from the original on 2015-09-16
  4. ^ Eric Davidson (2015-05-20), "Listen: Ratboys – AOID Album Stream, Plus Tour Dates", cmj.com, CMJ, archived from the original on 2015-09-23
  5. ^ Andrew Sacher (2015-05-14), "Ratboys releasing debut LP on Topshelf", brooklynvegan.com, BrooklynVegan, retrieved 2024-04-15
  6. ^ Tom Johnson, "Ratboys 'AOID'", goldflakepaint.co.uk, GoldFlakePaint, archived from the original on 2016-09-30
  7. ^ Elizabeth Handgun (2023-08-24), "Ratboys – The Window (review)", swimintothesound.com, Swim Into The Sound, retrieved 2024-04-15
  8. ^ Kevin Williams (2020-02-28), "'Printer's Devil' by Ratboys is yet another great album by a Chicago band, and you get two chances to hear them this weekend", chicagotribune.com, Chicago Tribune, retrieved 2024-04-16