Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago
Linda Smith and The Smashing Times are the best of friends. They are both currently based in Baltimore, USA. This forthcoming split 7” EP celebrates that friendship with two new tracks by each act; united by DIY spirit, a bedroom-pop sensibility and now a puddle of black vinyl.
Songwriter Linda Smith has a gentle but unconventional experimental style that continues to evolve as she adds new entries to her storied catalogue. Smith’s pioneering work with four-track production in the '80s found her at the beginning of a home-recording movement that would set the pace for the decades of indie rock that followed. During this most active period, Smith's music was limited mostly to obscure cassette and 7" releases. This trailblazing time was recently revisited on Captured Tracks’ compilation ‘Till Another Time: 1988-1996’. Shortly after Smith’s retrospective, she teamed up with like-mind and collaborator Nancy Andrews to release an album of beguiling pop entitled ‘A Passing Cloud’ (2023). The duo performed songs from that record at Upset The Rhythm’s 20th anniversary party at Café OTO that same year. 2024 saw further reissues of Smith’s music including Nothing Else Matters (1995) and I So Liked Spring (1996).
The Smashing Times are a premier East Coast Pop Experimental Group. They have also gleefully performed in London for Upset The Rhythm twice in quick succession. Known for their dogtooth style, waggish mod attitude and tumbledown sound, The Smashing Times have holes in their socks and sit idly between The Kinks and Tori Kudo. Their previous albums on K Records, Perennial and Meritorio are a cherished commodity steeped in Paisley psyche and slapdash panache.
This split 7” EP comprises 4 new tracks. Two from Linda Smith in keyboard-warble anthem mode and two low-fidelity daytrips by The Smashing Times. It will be released on 500 black vinyl 7”s by Upset The Rhythm on August 15th 2025.
Available to order here: upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com
or here: upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com
Thank you!
UTR
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Linda Smith and The Smashing Times are the best of friends. They are both currently based in Baltimore, USA. This forthcoming split 7” EP celebrates that friendship with two new tracks by each act; united by DIY spirit, a bedroom-pop sensibility and now a puddle of black vinyl.
Songwriter Linda Smith has a gentle but unconventional experimental style that continues to evolve as she adds new entries to her storied catalogue. Smith’s pioneering work with four-track production in the '80s found her at the beginning of a home-recording movement that would set the pace for the decades of indie rock that followed. During this most active period, Smith's music was limited mostly to obscure cassette and 7" releases. This trailblazing time was recently revisited on Captured Tracks’ compilation ‘Till Another Time: 1988-1996’. Shortly after Smith’s retrospective, she teamed up with like-mind and collaborator Nancy Andrews to release an album of beguiling pop entitled ‘A Passing Cloud’ (2023). The duo performed songs from that record at Upset The Rhythm’s 20th anniversary party at Café OTO that same year. 2024 saw further reissues of Smith’s music including Nothing Else Matters (1995) and I So Liked Spring (1996).
The Smashing Times are a premier East Coast Pop Experimental Group. They have also gleefully performed in London for Upset The Rhythm twice in quick succession. Known for their dogtooth style, waggish mod attitude and tumbledown sound, The Smashing Times have holes in their socks and sit idly between The Kinks and Tori Kudo. Their previous albums on K Records, Perennial and Meritorio are a cherished commodity steeped in Paisley psyche and slapdash panache.
This split 7” EP comprises 4 new tracks. Two from Linda Smith in keyboard-warble anthem mode and two low-fidelity daytrips by The Smashing Times. It will be released on 500 black vinyl 7”s by Upset The Rhythm on August 15th 2025.
Available to order here: upsettherhythm.bandcamp.com
or here: upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com
Thank you!
UTR
x
![KAPUTT - Very Satisfied [OFFICIAL VIDEO]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/m2-RQrfnCsM/mqdefault.jpg "KAPUTT - Very Satisfied [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
Very Satisfied is taken from Kaputts debut album Carnage Hall, out this September on Upset The Rhythm.
Video made by Holly Beer and Tasha Lizak-Naikauskas.
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/KaputtinGlasgow/")
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So Easy To Love features on Gun Outfits new double-album Process and Reality, out May 8th on Upset The Rhythm.
Video shot on super 16mm by Joe DeNardo, edited by Dylan Sharp.
Paintings and photos by Dylan Sharp.
https://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/")
![Apostille - Feel Bad [OFFICIAL VIDEO]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/o3OwxCTrGfg/mqdefault.jpg "Apostille - Feel Bad [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
Taken from Apostilles new full-length album, Choose Life released June 8th on Upset The Rhythm.
Choreography by Jessica Higgins.
Filmed by Harrison Reid and Omar Aborida.
Edited by Maria Tedemalm and Michael Kasparis.
Starring: Musho Fernandez Rodriguez, Jessica Higgins, Maria Tedemalm, Lewis Cook, Suzanne Rodden, Christopher Taylor, David Roëder and Moe Meade.
https://apostille.bandcamp.com/
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/
Available to order here: http://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/")
![Rattle - True Picture [OFFICIAL VIDEO]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oThlJ9VMiu0/mqdefault.jpg "Rattle - True Picture [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
Official music video for True Picture by Rattle.
Filmed, Directed and Edited by Simon Parfrement
https://www.youtube.com/user/MrParfos
Shot on location at Park Hill, Sheffield.
Track taken from the RATTLE LP:
Label: Upset The Rhythm / I Own You
Catalogue Number: UTR082 / OWN008
Formats: CD / LP / Digital
Rattle focus almost exclusively on drums and more drums, beneath a delicate overlay of vocal harmonies and percussive effects. Formed by Katharine Eira Brown (also of Kogumaza) and Theresa Wrigley (also of Fists), Rattle began as an experiment in crafting rich songs and melody using drums and voice alone. Their music weaves and intertwines post-punk, minimalism and experimental rock, through off-kilter rhythms, patterns and counter melodies. Their live performances are at once hypnotic, monastic and danceable, having entranced audiences at Supersonic Festival, Dot to Dot, throughout the UK during a recent tour with Witching Waves and in Europe with Zea (Arnold de Boer from The Ex). The band will be performing at the Supernormal festival in August.
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.
When it came to recording the album it made absolute sense to bring in their regular live sound engineer Mark Spivey (also of Kogumaza) who has been working closely with the band from the beginning. Live, he adds additional effects and manipulations from the sound desk and these techniques were transferred over to a studio setting at The Big Mouse House, in Sneinton, Nottingham (in the studio owned by Tony Doggen, of Spiritualized and coincidently where Jake Bugg recorded his new album). A lot of time and attention was taken to get the best sound possible from the drums in the room. As Mark explains: “We wanted the record to be and sound very real, and to sound like what it is, which meant (by definition) that it needed to sound unlike anything else.”
Although the pair listen to a vast array of musical styles, it’s almost impossible to reference directly to any influences as the band sound so utterly unique. Having such an a-typical set-up means that it’s really difficult to sound like a typical guitar band. As the band point out; “Music can be so steeped in obvious references to other bands and eras that it can become a bit choking.”
Having mostly played in experimental or avant-rock settings Rattle first discovered that they could make their awkward audiences dance with opening track “Trainer (Get You)”, which was specifically designed to make the listener move in some way. Whereas other songs embrace different moods, for example “Starting” has a sense of urgency and a repeated lyric phrase that becomes a mantra, and “Click” is more soothing and meditative. The high hat and cymbal hits in “Sorcerer” have a sword-fighting feel and “Stringer Bell” is more of a cocktail song from a 1950s city apartment.
Often starting by picking out the ghost notes from the drums to develop a melody, the song then reveals itself in rounds and harmonies with layer upon layer of rhythm and vocal, lending a choral feel to some of the tracks. Rattle effortlessly blend the avant-garde with irresistible melodies and hypnotic drum beats, using rhythm and harmony to create a refreshing sound that is utterly new - a pretty rare feat these days when we’re saturated with so much music. Their live shows conjure all the magic and excitement from their exhilarating creative process, allowing the audience to share in the very special bond between the duo as they dazzle with their drumming skills.
Rattle are:
Katharine Eira Brown & Theresa Wrigley
Drums / Percussion / Voice
All songs written by Rattle.
Copyright 2016 I Own You Records & Upset the Rhythm
www.iownyourecords.co.uk
www.upsettherhythm.co.uk")
![Bamboo - Always Running [OFFICIAL VIDEO]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oXvL4inFXtA/mqdefault.jpg "Bamboo - Always Running [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
Always Running is taken from Bamboos recent album The Dragon Flies Away, out now on Upset The Rhythm.
Always Running - Act I Scene II from The Dragon Flies Away album released 2017, written by Nick Carlisle and Rachel Horwood.
Audio produced by Nick Carlisle.
Video directed by Cookies.
Camera by Jack Barraclough.
Movements by Natalie Sloth Richter.
Mask made by Rachel Horwood.
http://www.bamboosongs.co.uk
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/bamboo.shtml")
