10/18/2024

Oliver Coates – Throb, shiver, arrow of time – Out Now!

In the world today, Oliver Coates’ new album Throb, shiver, arrow of time. Available in “standard” and limited vinyl editions, import cd (from Plancha), and everywhere that music is served.

Between making skins n slime and Throb, shiver, arrow of time, Oliver has completed multiple original scores for feature films, including Charlotte Wells’ 2022 triumph Aftersun. Whether or not composing so extensively for film has shaped Oliver’s creative process any differently, he’s never, in our time working with him, settled for an end presentation that doesn’t completely embody his vision. That said, new layers appear in the uncompromising vision of Throb, shiver, arrow of time; a deepening of all senses, a new relationship with narrative, a complexity of sound collapsing and rebuilding.

It’s easy to lean into the “cinematic quality” of Oliver’s music. but remove his work in that field from the equation, and you’ll hear an artist reconsidering the mechanisms and meanings of their craft, intimately exploring sound and then distancing themselves from it. Both serendipitously and purposefully conceiving music which the listener is allowed to experience with emotional contour. an invitation to “free us from the flatness of everything,” as Oliver told us.

We’ve listened to this album so many times, and it still transports me to a different place with each listen. We’re humbled to have this collaboration, and over so many distances, Oliver.