08/17/2026
TYLER HOLMES — PATIENCE
Almost eighteen months later, *Patience* still feels like one of the more quietly strange records to come through Ratskin.
Five years in the making, Tyler Holmes’ *Patience* is an album about mortality, memory, consciousness, replication, nature, grief, and the uneasy distance between the things we experience and the things we can actually preserve.
The idea behind the record is **“Trapping The Ghost”** — trying to capture something fleeting inside a recording and give it a physical form.
You can hear that tension throughout the album, like on so many of Tyler Holmes works, they are nuanced , thick with meaning and memory, powerful architectural offerings for the mind and inner body. Acoustic instruments and fragile melodies sit alongside degraded electronics, fractured voices and sounds that seem to be slowly coming apart. It’s beautiful in places, unsettling in others, and rarely stays where you expect it to.
Inspired in part by Jeff VanderMeer’s *Southern Reach* trilogy and Mark Twain’s *No. 44, The Mysterious Stranger*, the record carries the feeling of discovering something familiar in an unfamiliar landscape.
*Patience* doesn’t really feel tied to a particular moment. It’s the kind of record that gets stranger with time.
**TYLER HOLMES — PATIENCE**
RAT102
Ratskin Records
Still available on limited cassette + digital though we are fond to say we are down to our last copies. Copies directly available through the artist as well.
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