Pansy on Chicago’s Ratboys

In Our Headphones

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🗓️ 4 December 2025

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Vivian McCall of local Seattle band Pansy joins producer Lilly Ana Fowler to talk about Chicago’s Ratboys and their new song “Light Night Mountains All That,” the first song released on their new label home New West Records. Ratboys have a new record Singin' to an Empty Chair coming out next year.

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0:00.0	From Independent Music Station, K-E-X-P, you're listening to In Our Headphones, a podcast about the songs we just can't stop listening to.
0:08.7	This is Lillianna Fowler, and this week I'm filling in for Evie Stokes and talking to Vivian McCall of Pansy.
0:15.4	So you brought a track to share with us today.
0:18.9	This is Light Night Mountains, All that, by Rap Boys. Yes.
0:23.3	Rap boys are a Chicago band. They are Chicago band. Yes. Sorry to step on you, just like me.
0:31.2	Yeah, yeah. We're representing Chicago today. So they've been around for a while. They've been around for
0:36.4	about a decade.
0:42.6	I know that they did a KXP live session here a couple years ago.
0:45.3	They have a lot of albums that are critically acclaimed.
0:50.2	But I had not heard this new song from their upcoming album.
0:55.8	What was it about this song that made you want to bring it in today and share? I think what's amazing about it is I believe it is like six minutes and 20 seconds and it just doesn't feel like that.
1:02.6	It is so energetic and propulsive and just it just the the tightness of this band is really like amazing to me because it just feels like they're one of
1:15.3	those bands where it just feels like they're operating as like one thing like all the guitars
1:19.6	and the drums it's just like this propulsive thing that is like yanking the lyrics and the
1:25.1	melody feels so meticulous that it circles all the way back around to
1:30.4	feeling kind of spontaneous because they're like all these sections and all of them are
1:36.4	you know catchy for their their own reasons and it like there are parts where it kind of lets it just
1:42.0	sort of jam and drone a little bit and it just feels
1:45.9	like this you know these guitars are just sort of like bending and and it's squelching and shrieking and
1:52.5	like it's so cool and and she's julia the singer is just sort of you know she's just like above this
2:00.2	kind of chaos um and just like above this kind of chaos.
2:02.9	And I love that.
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