Album Review: Jerod S. Rivera – Collected Works
Album Review: Jerod S. Rivera – Collected Works
Elise Mills
Oakland producer Jerod S. Rivera released his followup record Collected Works to last year’s debut Virgo: “Curiously elemental, the album unravels an orchestra of synth-etic and synesthetic threads, and reveals an uncanny constellation of the real and hyperreal.”
Album artwork via Bandcamp
Treat your ears to a compilation of Jerod S. Rivera’s “previously unreleased tracks, improvisations, doodles, outtakes, and experiments.” “Collected Works” is a natural followup to last year’s debut album “Virgo,” and contains even more microcosmic atmospheres for interior thought-worlds to expand and multiply in countless ways.
Rivera has a knack for forging hypersensitive, metallic-tinged soundscapes. From grounding, pulsing rhythms to poignant cool-toned melodic ambient ditties, he crafts a nexus between our world and one that is nostalgic of a forgotten, perhaps even mythical, time. Curiously elemental, the album unravels an orchestra of synth-etic and synesthetic threads, and reveals an uncanny constellation of the real and hyperreal.
The digital album and tape are available on Bandcamp. You can also tune into Jerod S. Rivera’s show Adjustment Layer on Internet Public Radio every second Saturday to keep more leftfield, IDM-centric, ambient-adjacent gems on your radar. Check out the Fault review of “Virgo” here.
Photo courtesy of Jerod S. Rivera
Elise is a sound artist and noise-lover born and raised in San Francisco. Especially interested in the metaphysicality of sound, she spends her time prototyping DIY synthesizers and lamenting the whims of magnetic tape, among engaging other experimental electronic projects.