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Patience

by Tyler Holmes

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Blank Tape 03:20
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Singing Hate 11:24
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Hazel 03:16
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Artifact 04:09
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Copy 02:36
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Campanulate 01:13
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Common Sense 05:53
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Commercial Success 08:28
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(For) KJ 07:54
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Veil II 05:52
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Patience’ is the new, experimental full length album from Tyler Holmes.
‘Patience’ because it’s been 5 years since their last record. ‘Patience’ because they, admittedly, have none and profess that it is their life’s work to learn some. ‘Patience’ is built on the bones of ‘The Southern Reach Trilogy’ by Jeff Vandermeer and ‘No.44, The Mysterious Stranger’ by Mark Twain. Themes of accepting our place in nature, the universe’s apathy at our existence, and its extreme care in allowing us to exist, violence and horror devoid of malice all factor into the serene, agonizing, brutal, destroyed landscapes of these 9 songs. Gentle, bucolic, acoustic arrangements grate against rusted metallic backdrops that barely contain the swirling and glitching vocal loops of a bottled specter suddenly shattered. Tyler Holmes’ work centers around a concept they coined, ‘Trapping The Ghost’, which speaks to capturing the human experience, mortality, and/or consciousness within artwork, devices, objects, and media, this record serves as such an artifact. After writing their last album, ‘Nightmare In Paradise’, Tyler Holmes moved to Los Angeles, experienced the death of a parent, and had their heart broken twice, but this record (and the next) direct focus elsewhere. The only ‘breakup song’ is ‘Commercial Success’ and it was one of the first composed for this collection. Anchored heavily by contorted, or manipulated vocals, the album is intentionally opaque and features few songs with intelligible lyrics. The song ‘Hazel’ directly references a character from the film Synecdoche, NY with the quote: ‘it’s a big decision how one prefers to die’ while ‘Singing Hate’ is a lark on Holmes’ late father’s conceit that ‘you’re either singing love or you’re singing hate’. Recording of the album was split between the rural seaside escape of Point Arena CA and the cement reverberant art space Human Resources in Los Angeles. To research this project Holmes gorged as much media as possible where the human form or essence is duplicated, replicated, captured, distilled, or manufactured; this is the synthesis, this is the document.

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released September 26, 2025

Written, Produced, Mixed, Performed by Tyler Holmes
Recorded by Josephine Shetty & Tyler Holmes at ‘This Will Take Time’ in Point Arena,CA
‘Human Resources’ in Los Angeles,CA
Mastered by Jake Rodriguez
Cello on ‘Singing Hate’ & ‘Commercial Success’ by Peekaboo
Electric Guitar on ‘Singing Hate’ by Anya Good
Original Sculptures by Helena Martinez Bravo
Sculpture Photography by Lise Silva Gomez
Photos & Design by Tyler Holmes
Graphic Design & Layout by Paradise Khanmalek
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