Patchwork Rattlebag are releasing "Hook, Line and Riser", the first single from their forthcoming album Fragments 1. The track features experimental, beat-driven electronica and overlapping, ethereal, and sometimes disorienting vocals.

What does it mean to be the same but altered? "Hook, Line & Riser" is a song 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, the track presents fragmented images of subjective and social formation. The music video 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.

The elements 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".

Bio

Patchwork Rattlebag are an experimental collective from the North West of England. Formed in Salford, the group creates psychedelic music that crosses genre boundaries. 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.