09/12/2024

Oliver Coates Shares New Single + Video “Apparition”

“Apparition (feat. Malibu)” is the glistening new single from Oliver Coates’ new album Throb, shiver, arrow of time. Stuttering plumes of poetry by Coates’ long-time collaborator Malibu materialize in introspective shades around burnished flickers of string. As the track plunges into its cavernous depths, her crystalline ruminations on “swimming into the sunset” undulate through viscous, stretched-out sound, drowned and suspended in spectral radiance.

“Apparition” arrives accompanied by a video from multimedia artist Charlotte Wells, whose 2022 film Aftersun Coates’ scored. Of the video, Wells says, ““When Olly sent me the track and shared Sarah Sze’s work as the feeling of a video — refracted, chaotic, searching — I thought of an experiment of sorts that friend/artist/collaborator Greg Oke did a while back using personal photographs in rapid succession. Olly shared thousands of photographs from the past eight years or so and I kind of curated them, encouraged them into the timeline while remaining deferential to the serendipity of their chronology and structure; repeated, inverted, whatever. There’s intention, but mostly just life.”

View Wells’ video for “Apparition” just below: