Living The Lyric-Free Life With Ratatat, By John Norris

Three albums in, electro-rock buds are doing just fine. Ratatat's Mike Stroud Photo: MTV News You might say they're "transformers," the guys of Ratatat. I have twice now been witness to their transformative power, most recently a couple of weeks ago when I watched a club full of thousands of keg-tappers — the sort that Evan Mast and Mike Stroud might have known at Skidmore College a decade ago — turn into dancing dudes, a blissfully bro-hugging throng transported by blips, beats a...

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