One of the most compelling groups on the scene since the early 2010s, Rubblebucket, the art-pop project of Kalmia Traver and Alex Toth, is sharing a psychedelic new single, sure to make your hips move. Today, the duo release perhaps the funkiest song they’ve ever made, "Rattlesnake", along with its music video. The band loosely adapted a poem lead singer Kalmia wrote called “Time For the Rattlesnake” from her zine poetry book “Year of The Banana”, capturing it in a funky-disco-smash song form.
"A few years before I wrote the rattlesnake poem, my mom and I were on a 30-mile bike ride... Just off the path we spotted a massive rattlesnake lounging in the dappled forest sunlight. It was my first time ever seeing one and my instinct was to stop and get a good look. My mom’s instinct was to get the hell out of there, and we laughed later about this dynamic," Traver remembers. "The beauty of it took my breath away. But I later ruminated about how even when I am faced with the most breathtaking of our planet’s offerings, it can still be very hard to be present, focused & relaxed because of the chronic anxiety from which I suffer."
Though the tune opens with the neurotic “I don’t want to analyze you but…”, it unveils itself as one character pushing another to self-examine; for Rubblebucket, therapy takes the form of a dance party.
It's the first Rubblebucket song with strings (laid down by their good friend Renata Zieguer) since their 2014 song "Carousel Ride". The band went full disco-funk with "Rattlesnake", producing a track that sounds like Bee Gees and Michael Jackson meets Stereolab.
"Rattlesnake" is out today via all DSPs. | 
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