Coates, Oliver: Throb, Shiver, Arrow Of Time (Vinyl LP)

Oliver Coates' Throb, Shiver, Arrow Of Time is a portal into somatic chiaroscuro, aglow with the embers of imperfect memories and smudged with the plumes of internal echoes, which augment in vast, mercurial dimensions.

For his third album on RVNG Intl., the British cellist, composer and producer offers a capsule of personal resonance and remembrance, assembled over the past six years. Throb, Shiver, Arrow Of Time traces the familiar metallic anatomy and viscous string modulations of his 2020 release skins n slime, while cultivating his inner compulsions following a procession of lauded score writing projects, including the films Aftersun (Charlotte Wells, 2022), The Stranger (Thomas M Wright, 2022) and Occupied City (Steve McQueen, 2023).

The ten compositions of Throb, Shiver, Arrow Of Time 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.

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