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Ratbag gives us ‘sweet and sour stomach swirls’ in exclusive playlist to accompany The Cover
The New Zealand alt-pop artist has chosen tracks by Slow Pulp, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Sky Ferreira for the playlist The post Ratbag gives us ‘sweet and sour stomach swirls’ in exclusive playlist to accompany The Cover appeared first on NME.
NME’s latest star of The Cover, Ratbag, has compiled an exclusive playlist to accompany the story’s launch – check it out below.
The New Zealand alt-pop artist is on this week’s (March 31) edition of The Cover, a weekly manifestation of NME’s commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis. Every week, a rising artist will feature on The Cover – you can read the profile of Ratbag here, written by Laura Molloy and featuring photography by Jared Tinetti.
Ratbag – real name Sophie Brown – has curated an exclusive playlist to accompany The Cover, titled ‘Sweet And Sour Stomach Swirls’. Her selections include tracks from Slow Pulp, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Sky Ferreira, among others. Listen to the full playlist on Spotify below and on Apple Music.
In The Cover, Ratbag shares some of the details behind her upcoming new EP, due for release later this year, and the experiences that have fed into it. The record mostly chronicles the love and horror inherent in womanhood. “I’m finding that being a woman is beautiful and sexy, and also very terrifying,” she explains. That beauty, she says, has been uncovered while exploring her queer identity. “A few years ago, I finally told myself that I was, in fact, very gay. And since then, I feel that being a woman has only… bloomed.”
Elsewhere, the 22-year-old discusses the community that has emerged around the very visual universe Brown has created with her music, in which fans get hands-on with the characters that have popped out of her imagination. “The last show I had, someone made an entire toy from something that I had drawn and put on a shirt, this little devil guy,” she tells NME. “I never even imagined it being anything more than a drawing, and then this person made it out of fabric, stuffed it and used it as a keychain. That’s so cool, and I never would have even thought of that.”
Find out more about Ratbag in the full Cover story here and see who else has been on The Cover here.
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