Glasgow-based cellist, producer and sonic experimentalist Oliver Coates announces his third long player for Brooklyn-based record label RVNG Intl., serving up a capsule of personal resonance and remembrance, assembled over the past six years exploring ambient, shoegaze and drone metal.
Spanning 10 reflective compositions, ‘Throb, shiver, arrow of time‘ is said to be “all about inaccurate transmissions from our memories, overlaid with emotions from other sources,” says Coates. The release is imbued with the ache and glow of recollections mulched together, where the guttural dissonance of misremembering is shrouded by strange orbs of sentiment.
The ten tracks find weightless melodies soaring across after-image gradients, magnified and compressed. Misted tones within “Please be normal” and “90” soften drone-soaked shudders of inner acoustics messing up. Vocal invocations appear from long-term collaborators Malibu and chrysanthemum bear, as well as drifting synth radiance from Faten Kanaan. Highlights from the album include ‘Ultra valid‘, ‘Shopping centre curfew‘, ‘90‘, ‘Make it happen‘.
‘Throb, shiver, arrow of time’ is scheduled for release on 18th October via RVNG Intl. Order a copy from Bandcamp.
TRACKLIST
1. Ultra valid
2. Radiocello
3. Please be normal
4. Apparition (feat. Malibu)
5. Address
6. Backprint radiation (feat. Faten Kanaan)
7. Shopping centre curfew
8. 90
9. Living branches (feat. chrysanthemum bear)
10. Make it happen