“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.
Salford based experimental collective, Patchwork Rattlebag have released ‘Vertigo Dreams’, the second single from their forthcoming debut album ‘Fragments 1’.
Artwork credit: Chantelle Valentin & John Lowndes. Photo Credit: Chantelle Valentin
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.
Following the band’s recent glitchy dystopian electronica single ‘Hook, Line and Riser’, ‘Vertigo Dreams’ shows another side to Patchwork Rattlebag, incorporating breezy acoustic textures, introspective lyrics and bursts of vocal harmony. The track sees the electronic elements of their sound drifting into the background, making way for and complimenting beautifully this haunting and beguiling song- as the band plumb similar melancholic depths to artists like Gravenhurst and Nick Drake.
‘Vertigo Dreams’ searches tensions: between contentment and insecurity, aspiration and wistful acquiescence, dreams and nightmares. Its swirling, psychedelic, folk-inspired atmospheres feature picked acoustic guitar, pulsing vibraphone, and broken electric guitar phrases. ‘Vertigo Dreams’ is the sound of Patchwork Rattlebag stripped back to its singer-songwriter origins and the accompanying video for the single will send you off into a blissful dreamy haze with its hypnotic DIY shot images of starry skies, expansive fields and spacious derelict buildings- illustrating the song’s search through emotions and contemplative moods perfectly.
‘Vertigo Dreams’ is released on 7th November 2025.
Debut Patchwork Rattlebag album ‘Fragments 1’ is set for release on 21st Nov via YMTC.
