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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.

Listen to the silence, let it ring on. Ahead of this Friday’s release of Throb, shiver, arrow of time, the forthcoming album from Oliver Coates, we share a final single in the form of “Radiocello,” accompanied by a visual from Jasper Baydala.

“Radiocello” is a freefall through guttural shivers, the ache of a drone-heavy downpour casting Oliver’s familiar palette of modulated matter into fervent new shimmers. a shift occurs as the strain subsides, allowing siren-like arrows to pierce silted storms of sound, as if they were signals swept into a cyclone. In Oliver’s words, the music “acts like weather, weathering the listener, or as flames licking at the sides of objects”

Throb, shiver, arrow of time is available to order here and shipping from RVNG’s Brooklyn HQ now.

In the world today, Atlas of Green, the fifth full-length album from musician and composer Andrew PM Hunt, Dialect.

If you’ve followed RVNG or dialect in recent years, you might know the origin story of Under~Between, Andrew’s beloved debut on the label in 2021. Whereas Under~Between was a cumulation after years of dialogue, atlas of green appeared almost from a silence.

This silence wasn’t a “I don’t care what you think, I’ll do as I please” silence. Quite the contrary, as several hundred (thousands?) emails and calls have been exchanged over the years, some cherished time shared when our paths have been fortunate enough to converge, and we’ve simply settled into the comfort and confidence of a well-lived and appreciated collaboration. So, for Andrew to set forth on the creation of Atlas of Green with little more than some encouragement to make something, symbolized an almost ascetic vow to return with music once it had fully formed and matched his expectation.

Suffice it to say, Atlas of Green defied all of expectations when it arrived. There was some clue where Andrew was headed with this work, having seen him perform early versions in the fall of 2023 (almost a year ago to date). But the end presentation of the album, complete with andrew’s backdrop on green, Atlas’s protagonist, was jarring on first experience, both in how different it was from his prior work and how astounding it was in its creative evolution and depth. Whether you’re familiar with andrew’s past work, or just now being acquainted, the immediacy of atlas of green is undeniable in its musical and emotional magnetism.

We couldn’t be more honored to serve Andrew’s vision, and excited for you to experience Atlas of Green. Limited rtist and standard vinyl, Japanese Import CD (via Plancha), and digital editions are shipping now. We’ll see you on the other side.

Impermanence never takes a break, and neither does Ka Baird. Returning to Europe in support of their recent album, Bearings: Soundtracks for the Bardos, Ka will visit Germany, Poland, Czechia, Austria, and Switzerland over the next couple weeks. complete dates below, including a special performance at Unsound Festival on October 5, where Ka will be accompanied by Henry Fraser, Artur Majewski and Paulina Wos.

“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: