RATTLE’s ‘Encircle’ rolls on with hypnotic The Slits, Annabella Lwin, and The Raincoats vibes

VIA ‘Upset The Rhythm,’ Nottingham’s RATTLE release third album, ‘Encircle,’ on February 28th.

The double-drummer duo, Katharine Eira Brown and Theresa Wrigley, expand their experiments in rhythm and tension across four extended tracks guaranteed to appeal to lovers of The Slits, Annabella Lwin, and The Raincoats.

The album opens with ‘Ritual,’ a simple snare drum pattern, overlapped with a second, and inspired by Brown’s visit to Boleskine House in Scotland, once inhabited by Aleister Crowley.

“The house was in ruins following a, or several, fires, and was inhabited,” she said. “It was a misty April shows day and the view from the terrace was Loch Ness with rising mist, which smoked up into the cemetery in front of the house. It was incredibly eerie and easy to imagine Crowley conducting his rituals.”

Opening the vinyl’s B-side, ‘All Burning’ is a live favourite, full of cyclical tumbling and evolving wordplay, built up gradually layer by layer with Wrigley’s cumulative snare work and Brown’s urgent calls for action: “Hold your doctor, hold your daughter, hold your horses”. The song inspired by a vision of the 1666 Great Fire of London, aims to evoke the panic and emergency of the disaster.

Brown and Wrigley formed RATTLE in 2011 after meeting on the live circuit performing in other bands – Brown a guitarist who had recently began playing drums in Kogumaza, and Wrigley the drummer in Nottingham’s Fists

‘Encircle’ was recorded at Foel Studios, Wales, produced and mixed by Mark Jasper, mastered at Liminal Audio by Shaun Crook, with album artwork designed by Martha Glazzard.

Photo © Julie R. Kane.

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