Rattle That Lock

Rattle That Lock is the fourth solo studio album by Pink Floyd singer and guitarist David Gilmour. It was originally released on 18 September 2015 via Columbia Records.[2][15][16] Gilmour completed short tours of Europe in September and October 2015 and South America in December 2015 to support the album, with a similar tour of the United States and Canada following in March and April 2016. The artwork for the album was created by Dave Stansbie from The Creative Corporation under the direction of Aubrey Powell, who has worked with David Gilmour and Pink Floyd since the late 1960s.[2]

Rattle That Lock
Studio album by David Gilmour
Released	18 September 2015 (2015-09-18)
Recorded	2010–2015
Studio	Medina Studio, Hove; Astoria Studio, Middlesex; Abbey Road Studios; AIR Studios, London
Genre	Rock jazz ambient[1]
Length	51:28
Label	Columbia[2]
Producer	David Gilmour Phil Manzanera
David Gilmour chronology
Metallic Spheres (2010) Rattle That Lock (2015) Live at Pompeii (2017)
Singles from Rattle That Lock
"Rattle That Lock" Released: 17 July 2015 "Today" Released: 4 September 2015 "Faces of Stone" Released: 6 November 2015 "In Any Tongue" Released: 4 March 2016

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
AnyDecentMusic?	6.5/10[3]
Metacritic	75/100[4]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Drowned in Sound	7/10[6]
The Guardian	[7]
Louder Sound	[8]
The Music	[9]
Record Collector	[10]
Renowned for Sound	[11]
Rolling Stone	[12]
RTÉ.ie	[13]
Spectrum Culture	[14]

The album, Gilmour's first in nine years, became his second solo number-one.[17][18]

Recording

The album was recorded at Gilmour's recording studios. Phil Manzanera, co-producer of the album, estimated that Gilmour had been writing the material for Rattle That Lock over the past five years, though he pointed out that one piano piece was recorded 18 years ago in Gilmour's living room.[19] Most of the album was recorded at Medina Studio, in Hove – the additional recording was at the Astoria houseboat studio, in both cases by long time collaborator, engineer Andy Jackson. The final Pink Floyd album, The Endless River, was similarly recorded and produced using a combination of the two studios.[2][20] Orchestra parts were recorded at AIR Studios in London[21] and the Liberty Choir were recorded in a South London church.[21] The album was mixed at Astoria and mastering for all formats was performed by James Guthrie and Joel Plante at das boot recording in Lake Tahoe, California.[20]

The title track "Rattle That Lock" was inspired by and makes use of the SNCF jingle, composed by Michaël Boumendil. Gilmour heard and recorded the jingle on his iPhone at Aix-en-Provence station while travelling to visit friends.[2][22] When Boumendil first got a phone message from Gilmour, he thought it might be a prank, so didn't return the call.[23] The lyrics for the track were written by Gilmour's wife and long time collaborator, Polly Samson and are based around the themes of Book II of John Milton's Paradise Lost. The musicians Mica Paris and Louise Marshall, together with the Liberty Choir, perform on the track.[2]

David's son Gabriel performs piano on the song "In Any Tongue", making his recording debut.[24]

Promotion

Radio

"Rattle That Lock" was the first single released from the album, it had its first radio airplay on BBC Radio 2's The Chris Evans Breakfast Show during the morning of 17 July 2015.[2] The single was made available for digital download immediately afterwards.[2][25] Also, David granted US radio DJ Redbeard an interview and premiered the album in the US on an episode of In the Studio the week of the album's US release.

For the week beginning on 3 August 2015, BBC Radio 2 made "Rattle That Lock" their Record of the Week, guaranteeing the song at least one play per day.

Music video

On 31 July 2015, a music video for "Rattle That Lock" was released on Gilmour's website and promoted via social media outlets. The video was created by Trunk Animation under direction from Alasdair Brotherston and Jock Mooney, produced by Richard Barnett and involved 12 animators, artists and compositors. Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis served as Creative Director for the video. The video depicts the fall of Lucifer from the Kingdom of Heaven and his subsequent journey through Pandæmonium, Purgatory and Chaos to corrupt the virgin Earth and become Satan, as told in the epic poem, Paradise Lost.[26]

Editions

Standard edition CD – Single CD with clothbound, foil-backed cover and 22-page booklet 180g heavyweight vinyl LP Includes 16-page colour lyric/photo booklet and a pass to download the digital album Deluxe edition The Deluxe Edition is available in CD/DVD and CD/Blu-ray formats and includes The album on CD The album on DVD or Blu-ray Disc in 5.1 surround sound and high quality stereo Discs held in coloured wallets, unique to the deluxe edition 4 Barn Jams (Previously unreleased) Barn Jams filmed in January 2007 and feature Richard Wright on keyboards. 4 documentaries 2 music videos 4 non-album audio tracks 32-page hardback lyric/photo book 48-page hardback copy of Book II from the epic poem Paradise Lost, by John Milton Double-sided poster Le Chat Noir jazz club postcard in envelope David Gilmour plectrum

Digital editions Digital download of the album in mp3 format will be available from iTunes and Amazon. The digital editions are: Standard digital edition: the Rattle That Lock album in digital format with a digital booklet. Deluxe digital edition: the album with a digital booklet, plus: 4 non-album tracks 4 Barn Jams 2 music videos

Artwork

The album's cover features a landscape photograph by Rupert Truman of StormStudios[27] with painted corvidae escaping a locked cage.[19] The album book's photographs were taken by Kevin Westenberg[27] with Polly Samson contributing recording session photographs.[27] Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis is credited as creative director.[28]

Tour

Main article: Rattle That Lock Tour

The Rattle That Lock tour was scheduled to begin on 12 September 2015 in Pula, Croatia with a special album preview show on 5 September 2015 in Brighton, England. It ended on 12 April 2016 in New York City, U.S. with a three-month break between the South American and American legs. Gilmour also performed a one-off charity show at Wrocław, Poland on 25 June 2016.

On 17 September 2016, Gilmour performed a concert in France at the antic theatre in Orange. For the occasion, due to the relationship between the song "Rattle that Lock" and the SNCF jingle, SNCF joined with Sony Music for the special event. On the eve of the concert, a few selected people took a private TGV (High Speed Train) from Paris to Orange, and were afforded VIP status during the concert.

Most of the venues on the European leg of the tour were Roman amphitheatres, similar to the one featured in Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii (1971). Gilmour also played two historic venues in London: the Royal Albert Hall and KOKO (formerly the Camden Palace theatre). He also played the historic Auditorium Theatre in Chicago, having last performed there with Pink Floyd in 1972. In July 2016, David and his band played two concerts in Pompeii and, in 2017, selected cinemas around the world showed the film Live at Pompeii [29] which was later released on multiple formats.

The touring band was made up of mostly the same musicians who accompanied Gilmour on his On an Island Tour of 2006, and include Phil Manzanera, Guy Pratt, Jon Carin, and Steve DiStanislao.[30] Kevin McAlea, who performed with Carin at Kate Bush's Before the Dawn shows in 2014, also played keyboards on the tour[30] in place of Richard Wright.

Track listing

Side one

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
1.	"5 A.M."	Instrumental	David Gilmour	3:04
2.	"Rattle That Lock"	Polly Samson	Gilmour Michaël Boumendil	4:55
3.	"Faces of Stone"	Gilmour	Gilmour	5:32
4.	"A Boat Lies Waiting"	Samson	Gilmour	4:34
5.	"Dancing Right in Front of Me"	Gilmour	Gilmour	6:11

Side two

No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Length
6.	"In Any Tongue"	Samson	Gilmour	6:46
7.	"Beauty"	Instrumental	Gilmour	4:28
8.	"The Girl in the Yellow Dress"	Samson	Gilmour	5:25
9.	"Today"	Samson	Gilmour	5:55
10.	"And Then..."	Instrumental	Gilmour	4:27
Total length:				51:28

Deluxe Edition[31][32]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
11.	"Rattle That Lock" (Extended Mix)	Gilmour Samson Boumendil	6:24
12.	"The Girl in the Yellow Dress" (Orchestral Version)	Gilmour Samson	4:08
13.	"Rattle That Lock" (Youth Mix - 12" Extended Radio Dub)	Gilmour Samson Boumendil	8:26
14.	"Rattle That Lock" (Radio Edit)	Gilmour Samson Boumendil	3:59

Rattle That Lock deluxe edition DVD and Blu-ray[33]

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Barn Jam 1"	Gilmour	4:38
2.	"Barn Jam 2"	Gilmour	2:57
3.	"Barn Jam 3"	Gilmour	3:54
4.	"Barn Jam 4"	Gilmour	4:20
5.	"The Animators, Alisdair + Jock" (Documentary)
6.	"Rattle That Lock" (Video)	Gilmour Samson Boumendil	4:26
7.	"The Animators, Danny Madden" (Documentary)
8.	"The Girl in the Yellow Dress" (Video)	Gilmour Samson	4:58
9.	"Polly Samson and David Gilmour at the Borris House Festival of Words and Ideas" (Documentary)
10.	"The Making of the Rattle That Lock album" (Documentary)
11.	"Rattle That Lock (Extended mix)" (Audio only)	Gilmour Samson Boumendil	6:24
12.	"The Girl in the Yellow Dress (Orchestral version)" (Audio only)	Gilmour Samson	4:07
13.	"Rattle That Lock (Youth mix - 12" extended radio dub)" (Audio only)	Gilmour Samson Boumendil	8:26
14.	"Rattle That Lock (Radio edit)" (Audio only)	Gilmour Samson Boumendil	3:59

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes.[24]

• David Gilmour – lead vocals (All except 1, 7, 10); guitars (all); keyboards (all except 8); piano (1, 3, 4, 5); SNCF sample (2); Hammond organ (2, 5, 9); bass guitar (5, 6, 7, 10); bass harmonica (7); electric piano (9, 10)
• Jon Carin – electric piano (9)
• David Crosby – backing vocals (4)
• Graham Nash – backing vocals (4)
• Danny Cummings – percussion (3, 4, 5, 7, 10)
• Steve DiStanislao – drums (2, 3, 5, 7, 9); percussion (2, 3, 7); backing vocals (2)
• Roger Eno – piano (4, 7)
• Martin France – drums (8)
• Gabriel Gilmour – piano (6)
• Jools Holland – piano (8)
• Damon Iddins – accordion (3); calliope keyboard (3)
• Rado Klose – guitar (8)
• Chris Laurence – double bass (8)
• The Liberty Choir – backing vocals (2)
• Phil Manzanera – Hammond organ (2, 3); keyboard elements (2, 3, 6); acoustic guitar (3, 9)
• Louise Marshall – backing vocals (2, 9)
• Andy Newmark – drums (5, 6, 10)
• Eira Owen – French horn (3)
• John Parricelli – guitar (8)
• Mica Paris – backing vocals (2, 9)
• Guy Pratt – bass guitar (2, 9)
• Mike Rowe – electric piano (9)
• Polly Samson – backing vocals (9)
• Yaron Stavi – bass guitar (2); double bass (2, 4, 5); backing vocals (2)
• Colin Stetson – saxophone (8)
• Richard Wright – voice sample (4)
• Robert Wyatt – cornet (8)
• Zbigniew Preisner – orchestration (1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10)
• Michaël Boumendil – original SNCF jingle (2)

Barn Jam personnel

• David Gilmour – guitars
• Richard Wright – keyboards
• Guy Pratt – bass guitar
• Steve DiStanislao – drums

Chart performance

Weekly charts Chart (2015) Peak position Australian Albums (ARIA)[34] 2 Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[35] 2 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[36] 1 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[37] 1 Brazilian Albums (ABPD)[38] 9 Canadian Albums (Billboard)[39] 2 Croatian International Albums (HDU)[40] 2 Czech Albums (ČNS IFPI)[41] 1 Danish Albums (Hitlisten)[42] 3 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[43] 2 Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[44] 3 French Albums (SNEP)[45] 1 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[46] 2 Hungarian Albums (MAHASZ)[47] 9 Irish Albums (IRMA)[48] 2 Italian Albums (FIMI)[49] 1 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[50] 1 Norwegian Albums (VG-lista)[51] 1 Polish Albums (ZPAV)[52] 1 Portuguese Albums (AFP)[53] 1 Scottish Albums (OCC)[54] 1 South Korean International Albums (Gaon)[55] 3 Spanish Albums (PROMUSICAE)[56] 6 Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[57] 1 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[58] 2 UK Albums (OCC)[59] 1 US Billboard 200[60] 5 US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[61] 1

Year-end charts Chart (2015) Position Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[62] 72 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[63] 52 Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[64] 36 Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[65] 31 German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[66] 50 Italian Albums (FIMI)[67] 27 New Zealand Albums (RMNZ)[68] 43 Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[69] 42 UK Albums (OCC)[70] 35 US Top Rock Albums (Billboard)[71] 35 Chart (2016) Position Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[72] 156 Italian Albums (FIMI)[73] 95

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Canada (Music Canada)[74]	Gold	40,000^^
France (SNEP)[75]	Gold	50,000^*
Germany (BVMI)[76]	Gold	100,000
Italy (FIMI)[77]	Platinum	50,000^*
Poland (ZPAV)[78]	Gold	10,000^*
Switzerland (IFPI Switzerland)[79]	Gold	10,000^^
United Kingdom (BPI)[80]	Gold	100,000^*
^*sales figures based on certification alone ^^shipments figures based on certification alone

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External links

• Rattle That Lock at Discogs (list of releases)