RATS NEST - A Family Portrait in Black and Gray

    

  I stumbled across today's song on a very fine compilation album from Inner Magic DIY, an outlet aimed at "giving a voice to LGBTQIA+ Intersectional BIPOC Multicultural Loud, proud, and punk AF artists from around the UK." The comp is titled Pride By The Seaside and features 24 bands, several who have featured on this blog (Pink Suits, Dinosaur Skull, Emily Flea, 51st State, Vampire Slumber Party, Mr. Wu's Pigs). Available on cd and digital download, you can find it here :  https://innermagic.bandcamp.com/album/pride-by-the-seaside-compilation

  Rats Nest (https://www.facebook.com/intheratsnest) are a trio, from Margate, who've a couple of eps on Bandcamp (https://intheratsnest.bandcamp.com/album/ep-2) and who also have an album titled State of Suspicion on Spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/0f4sMrvBo9eE4bXOkQizBV

  It looks like there's new music on the way in the form of an upcoming album. 

  The track you'll find below is from earlier this year (https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ratsnest1/a-family-portrait-in-black-and-gray-2) and is the one from the Pride By The Seaside comp. It brings to mind bands like 4FT Fingers & The Mistakes etc. It's called A Family Portrait in Black and Gray... 

Tired of learning from your experience It's just your shameful mistakes I represent the sins, you had wished you'd made The smell of the street infect their sheets And I walk these streets every fucking week And every day I watch their couples play But it's a lie, it's a lie, I can see it fray I see the anger Oozing from my family portrait And I can see the cracks The cracks are on the frame I fear the future As the painting will fade like Dorian Gray I'll encapsulate it Keep our memories in a jar So I know that you'll be there And you know I won't be far I'll always be at the table I won't break this coat of arms Bounded by blood Has lost it's charm

RATS NEST - The Kids

  RATS NEST are a street punk trio from Thanet in Kent with a line up of Stick (guitar/vocals), Skunk (bass/vocals) and Kaos (drums/backing vocals). They boast fast drums, mad guitar solos and aggressive vocals complaining about the corruption of society and other social affairs. Their debut ep, the snappily titled EP #1 came out in Jan 2018 and it was followed in August of that year with the equally snappily titled EP #2. I've checked them out and they're impressive enough but I think it's fair to say they've just upped their game with their debut video....

  It's for their new song, The Kids. It's their awakening from a period of hibernation in which they've been working on their debut album, if this teaser release was meant to stoke up anticipation then it's job done. You can tell they like Rancid but they've also been no doubt been listening to plenty of UK bands such as Grade 2, The Mistakes, Kill The Collossi, Knock Off etc. Young guys with catchy tunes and an abundance of energy, the album's titled State Of Suspicion and it drops at the end of this month. You can get more info here : https://www.facebook.com/RatsNestOfficial/ and snap up the 2 eps and new song here : https://ratsnestofficial.bandcamp.com/

  This is The Kids...