After celebrating the 30th anniversary of their 1991 second album, Blind Love, in 2021, the band had an idea: why not re-record the songs from that album and other favourites from the era and release an album of reconstructed, acoustic versions?

So Ratcat have released All Stripped Back – their first release in 22 years and an album created two years in the making, following the Twisted Tails compilation.

All Stripped Back marks the band’s first voyage into lo-fi music territory, “experimenting with instrumentation resulting in this selection of reinterpreted classics.”

Ratcat frontman Simon Day commented, “All Stripped Back is a celebration of songs from the Ratcat archive. I wanted to experiment with producing and limit myself to acoustic instruments without FX so the songs could speak for themselves.”