Bleep

Oliver Coates’ third album for RVNG Intl. is a kind of mourning for changes to his south London / Elephant And Castle neighbourhood that previous albums were made in, and a mythologising of the emotional transformations our minds make of our memories. Seething and solemn string textures are intertwined with warped and wondrous effects on Throb, shiver, arrow of time, making reedy converging waves of the naked arcs of Coates’ cellos. Raw yet amassing cavernous layers of turbulence, these mellifluous phrases sift through long, searching, grainy drones of the sands of time, excited into jittery sparks on ‘Apparition’ anchored by Malibu’s coolly spoken words.