The Big Takeover reviews Toilet Rats’ Black Cats

Thanks to James Broscheid at Big Takeover Magazine for the beautiful review of Toilet Rats' Black Cats! Read it here. Here is an excerpt:

"By expanding their musical vocabulary to include shades of college rock, new wave, and melancholy guitar pop alongside their established post-punk foundation, Toilet Rats have produced their most ambitious and emotionally resonant work to date. ‘Black Cats’ succeeds not because it abandons the band’s established strengths, but because it deepens them. Beneath the fuzz pedals, synthesizers, distorted basslines, and drum machines lies a remarkably compassionate record, one that finds meaning amid chaos and companionship amid catastrophe. For an album populated by ghosts, vampires, reactors, asteroids, and assorted creatures of the night, ‘Black Cats’ is surprisingly life-affirming. It stares directly at darkness and discovers not despair, but a reason to keep dancing."