PRINTERS DEVIL/Colored Vinyl

Description

'Printer's Devil' was recorded live at Decade Music Studios in Chicago and was produced by the band and engineer Erik Rasmussen. The result captures the electrifying and explosive thrill of their live show in a bottle and showcases their growing chemistry as a tight-knit band. Steiner wrote the majority of 'Printer's Devil' with Sagan while she was living through a radical change in her own foundations, demoing songs in the childhood home in Louisville, Kentucky, which had just been sold and emptied. "The demos there were almost too intense," Steiner says. "I kept writing in my journal that it felt like we shouldn't be there. I don't know if that feeling made its way directly into the lyrics, but for me, the songs will always be tied to that sense of home and the passing of time." Upheaval and change are clear themes spread throughout the songs on 'Printer's Devil' but moments of uncertainty are seen as a necessary part of growth. And through it all, Ratboys' dynamic still beautifully strings together the kinds of intimate folk songs and devastating alternative country tracks that fans have come to expect.