Joanne Robertson & Oliver Coates - Always Were

What this video is

Released 27 August 2025 as the second single from Joanne Robertson's album Blurrr on the AD 93 label, 'Always Were' sits within a fertile 2020s moment for UK experimental folk and art-adjacent music. Robertson's collaborator Oliver Coates is widely recognised for his film score work, notably on Aftersun (2022), lending the project cross-disciplinary cachet. The video's direction by Brad Kronz, a visual artist…

Why it matters

Represents the 2025 vanguard of UK experimental folk and ambient minimalism: sparse acoustic instrumentation (finger-picked guitar, violin) layered with atmospheric pads, vocals processed to near-abstraction. The collaboration between Robertson and Coates deepens both artists' established…

The director

Bradley Kronz (b. 1986) is a New York-based Postwar & Contemporary visual artist with an international exhibition history spanning High Art (Arles/Paris), Kunsthalle Friart Fribourg, Mulier Mulier (Brussels), Gandt (New York), and Artists Space (New York).…