Shit & Shine

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Sonic Masala is ready to melt Robin's Hood with a visit from the irascible, chameleonic noisy nelly, Shit & Shine!

SHIT & SHINE - "Big pop may not be Craig Clouse's forte. Even so, he's still managed to dabble in more styles than Picasso's favourite paintbrush. People sometimes file Shit And Shine under "noise rock" which is understandable because it is, objectively speaking, THE BEST GENRE. Such pigeonholing does a huge disservice in this case, however, seeing as Shit And Shine have released everything from heavy metal perversion pieces to pounding and shiny techno. Clouse once described Shit And Shine as his "fuck-all-y'all band", as opposed to other projects such as his since-defunct "rock band" TODD (who hardly sounded like Steppenwolf themselves). "Did I say that?" he asks now. "That's pretty cringe. That's me being a tough guy email cowboy, typing stupid shit for effect. I think what I meant is that Shit And Shine is pretty free and open to do anything, and TODD was strictly noise rock. Whatever that is." Clouse was based in London for several years, where Shit And Shine was conceived in 2004. Since 2010, this American noisenik has lived back in Austin, Texas however. He is the only constant member of Shit And Shine...walk through the vast, varied and veritably daunting smorgasbord that is Shit And Shine" - JR Moores, The Quietus

https://shitandshine.bandcamp.com

RATTLE "is an ongoing musical project concerned with experiments in rhythm, metre and tension. Katharine Eira Brown & Theresa Wrigley make up the Nottingham duo who with just drums and occasional vocalisations weave an expanse of percussive vortices. Their songs swirl and envelop with all the physicality and drama of another world pulling together around its own shifting centre of gravity. The drum beats phase and sidestep, they trade accents and overlap, providing a suitably alive terrain for the vocals to explore similar tendencies of pattern. Rattle's debut album was released in 2016 through Upset The Rhythm / I Own You and was greeted with much critical praise, this often singled out their hypnotic minimalism and ecstatic regard for the dance floor. The following six months saw Rattle support Animal Collective on their UK tour before heading out around Europe with The Julie Ruin. Rattle used these opportunities to try out new material and unconsciously began writing their next album. Brown recalls that "hearing our drums in these larger venues, with amazing sound, made us excited about how beautiful and magic the drums sounded, we were quite spellbound by how they were able to fill a venue so completely."

The duo formed quite by accident in Nottingham in 2011, where Katharine and Theresa knew each other from playing in other local bands. Katharine was a guitarist who had recently started playing drums in the band Kogumaza and Theresa is the enthralling drummer from Fists. They originally met up to skill swap guitars and drums but soon enough they found they were having more fun with a double drum set-up and started making the sound of their first song 'Boom', which became a blueprint for their new band's sound. As Katharine explains; "It seemed obvious right from the start that nothing else was going to be required in terms of instruments."

They wanted to find a band name that was onomatopoeic and Rattle fit perfectly. Their set-up remained roughly the same as from that very first rehearsal. The minimal framework meant that they had to use their imagination and think of different ways to create new songs using the same simple ingredients. They honed their sound live, with the drums set up facing each other which allowed a dramatic interplay between the players, lending a theatrical element to their performances." - Upset The Rhythm

https://rattleon.bandcamp.com/music