Tim Coster "Rowboat/Blackberry" CLAUDIA 3" CD-R.
These two tracks, originally released on a limited lathe-cut 7" in late 2005 and now reissued on Coster's own Claudia imprint, still feel like his most significant recordings to date. They're particularly potent examples of his approach to sound arrangement, where field recordings, drones of unidentified origin, crystalline glitches and loops of near-melody all lock together, providing a gorgeous hand-rendered road map of Coster's aesthetic interests. I couldn't tell you whether the repeating figure on "Blackberry" was sourced from piano, or guitar, or something far more unusual, but it's beautifully humid and hypnotic.
THE WIRE, 275, January 2007
