Australian three-piece Rat & Co. seem able to conjure a highly evocative atmosphere with only a few notes.
Matching enthralling electronics to soothing vocals, the group's near pastoral sense of pop futurism has a painterly touch.
New single 'Soldiers' opens in almost Boards Of Canada territory, the bubbling electronics then fusing into something a little more direct.
Sonically beautiful, the lyrics are actually highly dystopian in nature. Rat & Co. explain: "'Soldiers' is a story of a hopeless war near the end of human civilization. A war to end all wars, and everything else surrounding it. Mindless Soldiers spread across the land fighting to just stay alive for a cause that nobody knows. They are broken and nothing can fix them."
Tune in now.