OLIVER COATES - Radiocello

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 by Jasper Baydala. 

“Radiocello" opens into a free fall through guttural shivers, the ache of a drone-heavy downpour casting Coates’ 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 Coates’ words, the music “acts like weather, weathering the listener, or as flames licking at the sides of objects.

Of the visual, Baydala notes, “I drew some pictures of a ruined lighthouse, ships, waves, and then Oliver mentioned the schematic drawing work of Christian Pilz, and that the track, for him, was ‘transmissions from a faltering world’. I kept drawing; more distorted old information crossing the divide. Flying machines sucking up resources. Sending power long distances. Entropy. Death and metempsychosis. Desperate messages. SOS. Rudimentary with basic tools. Drawing with a piece of bent rebar pulled from the rubble.”

View Baydala’s visual for “Radiocello” below, and don’t hesitate to be in touch if you need any additional information about Throb, shiver, arrow of time or would like to cover the album.