On his latest album, Tim Showalter, aka Strand of Oaks, returns with a trippy synth odyssey of self-discovery
By the time Tim Showalter steps onstage at Nashville’s Centennial Park in early June, it is a small wonder this show is still happening. Being the cusp of summer in Nashville, one of those gently emphatic storms rolled through — patient downpours for hours, steady and in no rush to leave. Showalter is in town briefly, this gig is a solo prologue to his forthcomingtour.
In the interim between records, Showalter tried new creative endeavors. He fell in love with painting and began devoting much of his time to it. In the spring of 2022, he joined the cast of the, playing a ruthless biker. These experiments allowed him to step away from himself, and the records tied to his own name — to be nervous again.
Singles like “More You” and “Ananda” might have the sort of ruminative, mystic threads of past Oaks dressed in more atmospheric tones. Other tracks, like “Fantasy Wranglers” and “Miracle Focus,” have Showalter’s typical melodic sensibility, rendered in new colors. But a lot of other songs. Both “Future Temple” and “Switched On” almost eradicate Showalter entirely, heavily processed vocals coasting across clouds of fizzy synth layers.
“I kept asking myself: ‘What’s the best way to translate bliss, this new feeling I’ve discovered?’” he recalls. “For me, the gateway was synthesizers, movement, and. If I take myself too seriously , I become a Silverlake guru. I’m from Indiana. How do I do this authentically? Be fun, not change who I am, be exactly me.” as a “gateway to meditation” akin to the old Nintendo instruction manuals he remembers from his youth, introducing the characters and how you’d play as them.
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