The Rat Utopia Experiment Return with a Massive New Single

A new single just dropped from The Rat Utopia Experiment, and this one hits a lot of grunge tonality with a little aggression in its underbelly but a lot of melodic drive as well, so the whole thing comes through with a thriving approach that feels intense but catchy at the same time.

If you're not too familiar with the band, The Rat Utopia Experiment is known for their sort of thrashy and outside-the-box, colorful but still edgy pop stitched with garage punk, and I've always been a fan of how they do their thing, but this song definitely is a step in a new direction, which I really enjoyed.

The drumming on "Leviathan" is pretty much everything. It gives you a sort of Calm before the storm and helps not just bring the drive of the track together, but it gives something for the rest of the band to sort of push off of.

I think this is important because the whole thing with this band is delivering a track that has a lot of melodic catchiness to it, but there's also tons of live performance energy and aesthetic as well.

This single exemplifies both of those things perfectly. You do get the live performance feel of this band, and listening to it, you absolutely know that seeing them live is exactly what you want to be doing.

You don't always get that kind of vibe, but with this band, they put it out there full force, and if you've ever seen videos of them performing live, you will see exactly what I mean.

The guitar work here is absolutely stellar, giving off those grungy tones and chord progressions, but also throwing in some great little pitch harmonics here and there to build a little bit more layers to the soundscape.

Again, the percussion is really why the song is kind of over the top because just before the verses start, it's got a different beat and then kind of bursts into more of a full force when the verse comes in.

This band has a powerhouse vocalist to push forth loads of attitude and character with every single track that the band releases.

She is the essence of what this band is about, to me. I love this one because she has a lot of fast-paced lyrical phrasing and timing throughout the track, which makes you want to listen to it more than once after it's over. You just want to catch everything that she's saying.

Something else that I found really cool was the chorus vocals because she sort of layers those on as well. There are harmonies and almost call-back style vocals going on throughout that chorus, and it makes the song feel more lush during those sections.

By the time you get into the second verse, that character is right in your face. She becomes erratic, spontaneous, and intense, and starts spewing all of these inner thoughts one after another, all in a row.

This really hit hard because again, she gives so much character to the song and portrays the essence of what I'm driving front woman is all about.

She really puts herself out there and doesn't do it in a vulnerable way, but more in a take it or leave it kind of way.

She's going to say what she has to say, and it doesn't really matter what you think about it. That's a punk rock attitude, and that is a really essential part of the core of what this band is.

The band was born from certain elements of punk rock. Garage pop, garage rock, and garage punk, all sorts of come after that, but right at the center of them, the punk rock experience is right there.

I get the same vibe listening to this band as I do any classic punk rock band from the early to mid-80s, easily.

My favorite part has to be the end of the song when they change the pace, start giving you a four on the floor kind of beat, the guitars go off, start shredding and going crazy, and the whole thing just gets kind of explosive.

They really hold very little back with this track, but that's one of the many great Staples of this band.

Again, this track to me is a bit more melodically pushed. I like this because you get a great progression from it; it's not super fast, but there are still loads of surprises around its corners. This is a track that gives you thick vocals during the choruses and that edgy vocal approach during the verses.

So, you're getting the best of both worlds. As I said before, it's a bit grungy, but also blends plenty of punk and garage into the mix, giving you a big fat, robust but melodic, closed-fisted, good time.

So, dig into this one because it's one of the best songs the band has put out to date, in my opinion.

Turn it up and don't forget where you heard it first.

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