Featured Tune: "Gay Song" from Ratfink!

Lo-Fi Truths and Tender Grit: Ratfink! Hits Home with “Gay Song”

There’s something unmistakably intimate about Ratfink!’s “Gay Song”, the kind of track that doesn’t just play in your ears but sits with you, hands in pockets, eyes on the floor, saying things that were hard to say for far too long.

The Melbourne-based duo, Liv and Raph, bring their DIY pop sensibilities to this quiet storm of a release. Don’t expect studio gloss or perfectly polished production, that’s not the point. Instead, “Gay Song” feels like a conversation overheard from the next room, raw and real in all the best ways. The track moves slowly, intentionally, giving space for the emotional weight to land with grace rather than drama.

What makes this single stick isn’t just its subject, a personal story of queerness and small-town struggle, but how gently it unfolds. There's strength in its softness, a kind of emotional grit beneath the dreamy guitars and hushed vocals. It’s folk-adjacent, yes, but there’s also a subtle defiance humming through the quiet, like a heart that’s finally stopped apologizing.

With “Gay Song,” Ratfink! isn’t chasing a trend, they’re carving out a corner of authenticity in a world that too often edits it out. It’s a small song with a big soul, and it leaves you better for having heard it.