indie kings” – Manchester Evening News.
“Patchwork Rattlebag are genuinely a unique sounding artist. Given the saturation in record production in 2025, Patchwork Rattlebag do that rare thing of sounding entirely themselves whilst making really good tunes.”- James Young, Darkstar.
“John Lowndes and Patchwork Rattlebag are truly one of the best kept secrets in the music underground today.” – Music Is Our Radar.
“Count me as an envious admirer.” – Nick McCabe, The Verve.
Salford based experimental collective, Patchwork Rattlebag are set to release ‘Hook, Line and Riser’, the first single from their forthcoming album ‘Fragments 1′.
Frequently incorporating other artforms, the group constructs music with a strong vocal presence, featuring instruments, synthesisers, field recordings and beats. Consisting of three core members who value collaboration and curiosity, Patchwork Rattlebag traverse the spaces between the visual, audible, invisible and ineffable.
‘Hook, Line and Riser’ features glitchy, beat-driven electronica and overlapping, ethereal, and sometimes disorienting vocals to explore the question: ‘What does it mean to be the same but altered?’.
The track is made up of part/whole relationships and the collaboration of disparate parts. Expressed through uncompromising beats, ruthless basslines, relentless distorted synths, and concordant, Sardinian-influenced overtone voices, ‘Hook, Line and Riser’ presents fragmented images of subjective and social formation. The elements used to create the track form an unlikely totality, encapsulated in the phrase Sardinian singers use to describe an illusory voice created by the collective overtones of several vocalists: “la voce degli angeli“.
The accompanying music video for the track brings these ideas to life through data moshed environments featuring disembodied eyes, hands, and mouths, as well as medical imagery: individuals as parts of a whole.
‘Hook, Line & Riser’ is released on 3rd October 2025.
Debut Patchwork Rattlebag album ‘Fragments 1’ is set for release on 21st Nov via YMTC.
Artwork credit: Chantelle Valentin & John Lowndes. Photo Credit: Chantelle Valentin.
