Oliver Coates is back with a new album. Throb, Shiver, Arrow of Time is the British composer-producer and cellist’s formal follow-up to 2020’s Skins n Slime, after interim work on soundtracks for Aftersun and The Stranger, among other films. Ahead of its release on October 18, via Rvng Intl., watch the Hannah Perry–directed video for new song “Ultra Valid” below.
The new album is “all about inaccurate transmissions from our memories, overlaid with emotions from other sources,” Coates said in press materials, adding, “The cello is a kind of melancholic instrument with a light ethereal spirit. When the sound is flattened into digital processes, with shifted frequencies and time stretching I’m trying to give it even more of those qualities. Sometimes I’m distancing myself from it, so it becomes a piece of discarded debris that has soul in it, a down-sampling. Or other times, it’s trying to maximize the present tense in the act of playing, and collapse that vivid color into a burnished, photocopied kind of sound.”
Malibu, Chrysanthemum Bear, and Faten Kanaan feature; check out the tracklist below the video. A portion of proceeds from the record will go to the Traditional Music and Song Association of Scotland, an organization that invites engagement with traditional Scottish music and culture.