
With his new album Landscape From Memory out July 4th via Erased Tapes, Rival Consoles has squeezed out one more single from the LP titled ‘Soft Gradient Beckons’. He has also released a video to aid the track.
More like a short documentary, the video is a collaboration with visual artist and director Anthony Dickenson, who crafted beautiful stop motion visuals with each frame literally hand painted. The video also gives the viewer insight on the process of making it, as well as details Dickenson’s process of working.
Regarding the video, Anthony Dickenson mentioned:
“Every frame in this film for Soft Gradient Beckons was painted by hand—a slow, tactile process that unfolded over several months. What began as a simple experiment gradually became a response to the shifting rhythms of my own life. Each image became a fragment of memory, layered and stitched together to explore rhythm, decay, and time. The result is a piece that moves with the emotional undercurrent of the track—quietly pulsing, always evolving. What starts intimately opens outwards, hinting at the full scale of the work as it takes shape in physical space.”

