’Rat Film’ marks Deacon’s first full record devoted to modern composition. In between his four ecstatic Electronic-Pop albums, Deacon has frequently flexed the 21st-century Classical muscles he first developed studying at SUNY Purchase’s Conservatory of Music. He’s provided soundtracks for film and stage giants ranging from Francis Ford Coppola’s Twixt to Justin Peck’s “The Times Are Racing’. Deacon’s array of compositional commissions includes pieces with Kronos Quartet at Lincoln Center, Sigur Rós at the L.A. Philharmonic, and So Percussion at the Barbican Centre.