Indie
Rat Boy Returns with New Single “Suburbia Calling”
Rat Boy’s adventurous voyages across genres show as they share their new single, “Suburbia Calling,” their first new music in over two years.
Rat Boy’s ever-adventurous voyages across genres have taken the band, fronted by Jordan Cardy, on similarly sprawling journeys across the globe. But wherever they go, they inevitably find themselves boomeranging back to their Essex homelands. And that’s the topic that Rat Boy explores as they share their new single “Suburbia Calling,” their first new music in over two years.
Cardy says of the single:
“This is a love letter to the suburbs. It made us and shaped us. It’s good to be back.”
Bringing together spiky indie-pop thrills with Cardy’s drawling semi-rapped vocals, “Suburbia Calling” could be a big beat Blur or The Streets had they emerged mid-Britpop. As we’ve come to expect, Rat Boy’s musical anarchy is the backdrop to Jordan’s distinctly British lyricism, his postcard pictures of small-town culture providing equal measures of insight and humour.
“Suburbia Calling” is Rat Boy’s response if Essex ever needed its national anthem. Priced out of London, you’re back in a world of commuters, curtain-twitching neighbours and Union Jacks – and you know what? It’s good to be back home. While it’s specifically about Essex, “Suburbia Calling” will be relatable to anyone in the satellite towns or outer travel zones near any big city.
“Suburbia Calling” was produced by the renowned Stephen Street (Blur, The Smiths, Kaiser Chiefs ). Cardy wrote it alongside the track’s co-producer Sam Preston (jxdn, MOD SUN).
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