Bacchae – Just A Rat

Today, D.C. punks Bacchae share the track “Just a Rat” from the forthcoming LP, Next Time, their long-awaited follow-up to 2020’s Pleasure Vision. Produced by J. Robbins,

Next Time arrives on July 5, 2024 via Get Better Records.

Of the new single, the band says, “Bacchae generally play punk music that’s emotional and self-reflective, but sometimes we get goofy with it—as demonstrated by the bass-thumping dance-punk song, ‘Just a Rat.’ What if you were just a rat, eating garbage in a nightclub dumpster? Sometimes it feels so good to live chaotically, like a rat.”

Bacchae (“Bock-eye”) have been making eclectic, hooky punk music in DC since 2016. Their sound veers between gnarly dissonance, bittersweet choruses, and melodic earworms. An excellent soundtrack for despairing about the state of it all while channeling the anger to do something about it. Also appropriate for mourning a dying relationship, or envisioning yourself as a literal rat eating trash. Whether you’re into 70s proto punk, 80s synth pop, or 90s hardcore, you’ll find something to love.

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