Rattle

Composed of just two drummers, U.K. duo Rattle use a minimal palette to create enormous and often hypnotic sounds, drawing on the ethos of post-punk without relying on the typical trappings of the genre. Facing each other from behind their kits, drummers/vocalists Katharine Eira Brown and Teresa Wrigley's skeletal songs are sometimes enhanced by live dub-inflected mixing. Following a self-titled 2014 EP and an also-self-titled full-length in 2016, 2018's Sequence was just four lengthy tracks, spare and ghostly but not lacking in power. They followed it with another minimalist four-track exploration, Encircle, in 2025.

Rattle formed in 2011 when Nottingham musicians Brown and Wrigley, who had met through playing in their respective bands <a href="spotify:artist:3lRM5rRbkwONEbmWlSY7vB">Kogumaza</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:3DJhUxoFTSE8hy9HPvoMDp">Fists</a>, got together to jam. Originally, they planned on a more traditional guitar-and-drums set up, but quickly discovered that a dual drum sound felt more natural and interesting. They chose the name Rattle for this new project and quickly put together a set of songs that looked to post-punk's obsession with both rhythm and the recasting of dub production, as well as an inventive approach to songwriting that their minimal palette made necessary. A self-titled four-song EP materialized in 2014, with all four songs re-recorded for a self-titled full-length in 2016. The band toured with <a href="spotify:artist:4kwxTgCKMipBKhSnEstNKj">Animal Collective</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:2YFBqMMiIIL4XyiEwqySUQ">Protomartyr</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:3jCDV35GjiUGWYWKgMd9CF">the Julie Ruin</a> in support of their album and returned to the <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Upset+the+Rhythm%22">Upset the Rhythm</a> label two years later with their second LP, Sequence. Recorded and mixed by Rattle's <a href="spotify:artist:3xWQmtmxErItBQj3uqljM3">Mark Spivey</a>, it was an elongated and more hypnotizing affair that included just four lengthy, often lyric-less songs. Rattle stuck with a minimalist approach for their next recording, which took inspiration from the supernatural and occult. Recorded at Foel Studios in Wales with producer/mixer Mark Jasper after taking some time off for the COVID-19 pandemic and a deliberate step away from the album-release cycle, the four-track Encircle arrived on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Upset+the+Rhythm%22">Upset the Rhythm</a> in 2025. ~ Fred Thomas, Rovi