Sheer by Tim Olive
Tim Olive: magnetic pickups, ring modulator, spring reverb
Recorded and mixed February 2022, Kobe
Cover image by TO
Mastered by James Armstrong
Credits
released March 23, 2024
Physical/DL available from MRM:
mrmrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sheer
Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly:
More music by Tim Olive is always welcome, especially since he's working more and more solo… On 'Sheer 1', Olive opens with a firm dose of rolling concrete noises, thick as a brick, which halfway through falls apart in looser, fragmented tones. On the other side, he opens with such tones, which, on both sides, have a lovely ambient texture, helped by some fine reverb. The mood in the second half, the first half, is dark and moody, but also open and spacious. But then this mood becomes less spacious and closes up again, forming another, tighter mass of drones sounding still dark and moody. This is not to say that both sides are identical; far from it. 'Sheer 1' is the louder and somewhat noisier brother of 'Sheer 2'. Here, the textures are much more gentle and spaced out, but in the loosely organised first part of the dark ambience of the second part, it slowly becomes grittier, like a delicate noise beast. As said, I immensely enjoy Olive's solo studio work, and this is no different.
Physical/DL available from MRM:
mrmrecordings.bandcamp.com/album/sheer
Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly:
More music by Tim Olive is always welcome, especially since he's working more and more solo… On 'Sheer 1', Olive opens with a firm dose of rolling concrete noises, thick as a brick, which halfway through falls apart in looser, fragmented tones. On the other side, he opens with such tones, which, on both sides, have a lovely ambient texture, helped by some fine reverb. The mood in the second half, the first half, is dark and moody, but also open and spacious. But then this mood becomes less spacious and closes up again, forming another, tighter mass of drones sounding still dark and moody. This is not to say that both sides are identical; far from it. 'Sheer 1' is the louder and somewhat noisier brother of 'Sheer 2'. Here, the textures are much more gentle and spaced out, but in the loosely organised first part of the dark ambience of the second part, it slowly becomes grittier, like a delicate noise beast. As said, I immensely enjoy Olive's solo studio work, and this is no different.
