''Rattle That Lock'' is the fourth solo studio album by former

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singer and guitarist

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. It was released on 18 September 2015 via

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. The artwork for the album was created by Dave Stansbie from The Creative Corporation under the direction of

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, who has worked with Gilmour and Pink Floyd since the late 1960s. The album received generally positive reviews from critics and was a commercial success, becoming Gilmour's second UK no.1 solo album. Gilmour supported the album with the Rattle That Lock Tour throughout 2015 and 2016, with a performance from the tour at the

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being made into the live album and video, ''

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'' (2017).

Recording

The album was recorded at Gilmour's recording studios.

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, co-producer of the album, estimated that Gilmour had been writing the material for ''Rattle That Lock'' over the previous five years, though he pointed out that one piano piece was recorded 18 years ago in Gilmour's living room. Most of the album was recorded at Medina Studio, in

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– 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."Rattle That Lock" EPK Orchestra parts were recorded at AIR Studios in London and the Liberty Choir were recorded in a South London church. The album was mixed at Astoria and mastering for all formats was performed by James Guthrie and Joel Plante at ''das boot recording'' in

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. The title track "Rattle That Lock" was inspired by and makes use of the

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jingle, composed by

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. Gilmour heard and recorded the jingle on his iPhone at

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station while travelling to visit friends. When Boumendil first got a phone message from Gilmour, he thought it might be a prank, so didn't return the call. 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

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's ''

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''. The musicians Mica Paris and Louise Marshall, together with the Liberty Choir, perform on the track. David's son Gabriel performs piano on the song "In Any Tongue," his recording debut.

Promotion

Radio

"Rattle That Lock" was the first single released from the album, it had its first radio airplay on

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's '' The Chris Evans Breakfast Show'' during the morning of 17 July 2015. The single was made available for digital download immediately afterwards. Also, David granted U.S. radio DJ Redbeard an interview and premiered the album in the United States on an episode of '' In the Studio'' the week of the album's U.S. 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.

of Hipgnosis served as Creative Director for the video. The video depicts the fall of

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from the Kingdom of

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and his subsequent journey through Pandæmonium,

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and Chaos to corrupt the virgin Earth and become

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, as told in the

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, ''

''.

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

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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 ''

, '' by

*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

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and

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. 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 with painted

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escaping a locked cage. The album book's photographs were taken by Kevin Westenberg, with Polly Samson contributing recording session photographs.

of Hipgnosis is credited as creative director.

Tour

The ''Rattle That Lock'' tour was scheduled to begin on 12 September 2015 in

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with a special album preview show on 5 September 2015 in

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. It ended on 12 April 2016 in

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, U.S. with a three-month break between the South American and American legs. Gilmour also performed a one-off charity show at

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on 25 June 2016. On 17 September 2016, Gilmour performed a concert in France at the Roman Theatre of Orange (Théâtre antique d'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 concer

Most of the venues on the European leg of the tour were Roman

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s, similar to the one featured in '' Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii'' (1971). Gilmour also played two historic venues in London: the

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and KOKO (formerly the Camden Palace theatre). He also played the historic Auditorium Theatre in

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, having last performed there with Pink Floyd in 1972. In July 2016, David and his band played two concerts in

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and, in 2017, selected cinemas around the world showed the film ''Live at Pompeii'' 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

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and

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, who performed with Carin at

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's '' Before the Dawn'' shows in 2014, also played keyboards on the tour in place of

Track listing

All music by

unless noted.

Personnel

Credits are adapted from the album's liner notes. *

–

lead vocals The lead vocalist in popular music is typically the member of a group or band whose voice is the most prominent melody in a performance where multiple voices may be heard. The lead singer sets their voice against the accompaniment parts of the ...

(All except 1, 7, 10);

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected string ...

s (all); keyboards (all except 8);

piano The piano is a stringed keyboard instrument in which the strings are struck by wooden hammers that are coated with a softer material (modern hammers are covered with dense wool felt; some early pianos used leather). It is played using a keyboa ...

(1, 3, 4, 5);

sample Sample or samples may refer to: Base meaning * Sample (statistics), a subset of a population – complete data set * Sample (signal), a digital discrete sample of a continuous analog signal * Sample (material), a specimen or small quantity of ...

(2);

Hammond organ The Hammond organ is an electric organ invented by Laurens Hammond and John M. Hanert and first manufactured in 1935. Multiple models have been produced, most of which use sliding drawbars to vary sounds. Until 1975, Hammond organs generated ...

(2, 5, 9);

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

(5, 6, 7, 10); bass harmonica (7);

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument which produces sounds when a performer presses the keys of a piano-style musical keyboard. Pressing keys causes mechanical hammers to strike metal strings, metal reeds or wire tines, leading to vibrations ...

(9, 10) *

– electric piano (9) *

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–

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are ...

(4) *

Graham Nash Graham William Nash (born 2 February 1942) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, photographer, and activist. He is known for his light tenor voice and for his contributions as a member of the Hollies and the supergroups Crosby, Stills ...

– backing vocals (4) *Danny Cummings –

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

(3, 4, 5, 7, 10) *

–

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair of matching drumsticks ...

(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 Julian Miles Holland, (born 24 January 1958) is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer and television presenter. He was an original member of the band Squeeze and has worked with many artists including Jayne County, Sting, Eric C ...

– piano (8) *Damon Iddins –

accordion Accordions (from 19th-century German ''Akkordeon'', from ''Akkord''—"musical chord, concord of sounds") are a family of box-shaped musical instruments of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone type (producing sound as air flows past a ree ...

(3); calliope keyboard (3) * Rado Klose – guitar (8) * Chris Laurence –

double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or #Terminology, by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched Bow (music), bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern orchestra, symphony orchestra (excluding unorthodox addit ...

(8) *The Liberty Choir – backing vocals (2) *

– Hammond organ (2, 3); keyboard elements (2, 3, 6);

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

(3, 9) *Louise Marshall – backing vocals (2, 9) *

Andy Newmark Andrew Newmark (born July 14, 1950)

– drums (5, 6, 10) *Eira Owen –

French horn The French horn (since the 1930s known simply as the horn in professional music circles) is a brass instrument made of tubing wrapped into a coil with a flared bell. The double horn in F/B (technically a variety of German horn) is the horn most ...

(3) * John Parricelli – guitar (8) * Mica Paris – backing vocals (2, 9) *

– 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 The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

(8) *

– voice sample (4) *

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–

cornet The cornet (, ) is a brass instrument similar to the trumpet but distinguished from it by its conical bore, more compact shape, and mellower tone quality. The most common cornet is a transposing instrument in B, though there is also a so ...

(8) * Zbigniew Preisner – orchestration (1, 3, 5, 6, 9, 10) *

– original

jingle (2) Barn Jam personnel *David Gilmour – guitars *Richard Wright – keyboards *Guy Pratt – bass guitar *Steve DiStanislao – drums

Chart performance

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Certifications

References

External links

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