- electro, electronic, indie rock, alternative
- 46 min
- 11 tracks
- XL Recordings
Classics is the second album from Ratatat, released on August 22, 2006. As with their first album, Classics is almost entirely instrumental, with the only exception being a large cat-like sound sample used in "Wildcat" and the "Woo!" exclamation in the climax of "Nostrand".
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Character
Spare, grave, cool and classical in form.
- sparerichly built
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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Metacritic 69/100
- AllMusic4/5 ★
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Tracks
- 1Montanita5:01
- 2Lex4:30
- 3Gettysburg5:28
- 4Wildcat4:21
- 5Tropicana4:37
- 6Loud Pipes3:47
- 7Kennedy3:35
- 8Swisha3:50
- 9Nostrand3:05
- 10Tacobel Canon4:29
- 11Truman3:30
11 tracks, 46 minutes.
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