Salford electronica collective Patchwork Rattlebag release debut album ‘Fragments 1’

“The City's new 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.

‘Fragments 1’, the debut album from Salford, UK based collective Patchwork Rattlebag, is an intoxicating tour of song-driven, psychedelic, electronic music that visits moody, danceable electronica, psych-electro-folky textures, experimental electric guitars, and ethereal atmospheres.

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.

Led by signature, haunting vocal lines, and backed by stretched, choppy and kaleidoscopic voices, ‘Fragments 1’ is assembled from a wide range of fabrics from music, philosophy, culture and life. The lyrics explore the cosmic, the mundane, fleeting perceptions, dreams, parts removed from the whole, the underside of things and subjectivity.

With four experimental interlude fragments that create space and intrigue between more song-based tracks like cinematic, harmony drenched opener ‘Shade of my Mind’ and glitchy single ‘Hook, Line and Riser, the album borders the world of sound design with atmospheric tendencies that pull the listener into sometimes beautiful, sometimes dystopian moods. Elsewhere, tracks like ‘Vertigo Dreams’ and ‘To Find A Place’ are led by intricate guitar parts that guide the listener through poignant soundscapes and send them floating away into deep contemplative bliss. Unpredictable and full of twists and turns, ‘Fragments 1’ is both intelligent, yet highly engaging at the same time and an exciting calling card of one of the North of England’s best kept secrets. A free-flowing expressive piece, delivered through a revolving chandelier of analogue and digital toys, Patchwork Rattlebag have brought many fragments together to create a boundary pushing album to be cherished.

Debut Patchwork Rattlebag album ‘Fragments 1’ is out now via YMTC.

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