Nicole Oberle - Skin (Limited Edition Cassette)

Nicole Oberle is a prolific and enigmatic artist whose work in the fields of textural ambient music and lo-fi beat-oriented work unfolds to reveal layers of emotional transparency and honesty. Skin - Oberle’s first release for Whited Sepulchre Records - comes in as a wash of blackened drone, everything riding just a bit above the red, creating an overladen and disorienting rush. Even when Oberle opens up to incorporate birch-bare guitar lines, forlorn piano chords, disembodied vocal drones, fragments of poems and crushing beats, everything is saturated with a palpable sense of foreboding. There is a measurable heaviness imbuing every motion creating this record. Tracklist Shipyards (6:42) Self-Speak (2:42) Unnamed (3:43) Cold Metal (2:45) A Knot in Twos (4:24) Cigarette Burns (2:01) Stay With Me (2:04) Tired of This (1:35) Nobody Knows (1:53) I'm Just Stuck (3:09) Separation (2:46) Credits Additional guitar by Ashton Lockhart on "Stay With Me" Mastered by Andrew Weathers Layout by Dustin Bowen