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

1. Shipyards (6:42)
2. Self-Speak (2:42)
3. Unnamed (3:43)
4. Cold Metal (2:45)
5. A Knot in Twos (4:24)
6. Cigarette Burns (2:01)
7. Stay With Me (2:04)
8. Tired of This (1:35)
9. Nobody Knows (1:53)
10. I'm Just Stuck (3:09)
11. Separation (2:46)

Credits

Additional guitar by Ashton Lockhart on "Stay With Me"

Mastered by Andrew Weathers

Layout by Dustin Bowen