The Law of Things is the second album by the New Zealand band The Bats, released in 1990.

[6][7] It was released by Mammoth Records in the United States.

[5] The track "Smoking Her Wings" was released as a single, and the album peaked at #38 in the New Zealand charts.

[4] Trouser Press called the album "monumental," writing: "Capturing all the hooky appeal and personal charm of their first records, it updates the recipe with seven years of instrumental mastery and superior sonics.

"[11] The New York Times wrote that "the production is raw; the song structures are almost self-consciously unsophisticated - just jaunty guitar riffs, roughshod 4/4 rhythms and, in the more aggressive tracks, base lines that rumble and swell and even drown out the other instruments.