New album · out now
It All Burns
Down Someday
Six songs about accepting that everything ends — and choosing to live fully anyway.
It All Burns
New album · out now
Six songs about accepting that everything ends — and choosing to live fully anyway.
Who this is
72 Rats is me, Graham Bremner. I've been writing songs for about a decade and releasing them for a couple of years. Talking Heads, R.E.M., Joy Division, The Replacements, Sonic Youth — all pulled in from different directions to make something a little different.
72 Rats bring punk-inspired attitude and post-punk tension to it all burns down someday, an album shaped by lively performances and a broad approach to guitar-driven indie rock.— The Bandcamp Diaries
When pop music doesn't have the balls you want as the soundtrack to your day and rock music feels a bit too impenetrable or imposing, you need something with a foot in each camp. You need something like the new EP (mini-album?) from 72 Rats.— Dancing About Architecture
This new record feels immediate and adventurous at once, balancing driving rock energy against atmospheric passages and arrangements that reward repeat listens. The reference points are easy to hear, with the nervy intelligence, the jangling melancholy and the shadowed tension of legendary acts all echoing through the material. Still, 72 Rats never sound like a tribute act. The punk-inspired attitude is theirs, as is the live, spontaneous feel that keeps the performances sounding like people in a room rather than files in a computer.— JamSphere
Listen up
It All Burns Down Someday is out everywhere. CD, cassette, and digital download on Bandcamp, digital purchase on Subvert, and streaming on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and YouTube.
The journal
I'm documenting this album as it comes together on Substack — recording updates, lyric snippets, gear, and the occasional detour. No schedule, just whatever's worth talking about.
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The 2024 EP
Five songs, recorded with collaborators at Peel Studios. Reached #162 on the college radio charts.
The full story — one-sheet, press, radio play, and bio — lives on the nothing left to lose page.
Another name
Experimental and noisy work outside of 72 Rats — ambient pieces, old 4-track noise, a playground for whatever comes up.
"A full complement of 72 Rats would equal about one human in terms of water reclamation," says Layne Carter, a water-processing specialist at the MSFC.
Listen up and rock out.