William Tyler

Why not give this dude his own thread. Super talented Nashville guitarist, played with both Lambchop and Silver Jews, many others.
First album was magnificent - Behold the Spirit. Guess you could call it Takoma-style, but with some more ambient/experimental leanings.
New album forthcoming on Merge ... sometime soon?
Two live sets from this month: http://www.nyctaper.com/2012/09/william-tyler-september-6-and-7-2012-hopscotch-festival-2-performances-flac-mp3-streaming/

Looking forward to that, loved 'Behold the Spirit'.

Just discovered this guy. Really loving Impossible Truth. Fantastic stuff.

Yes! It is great.

haha, extremely successful thread i started here. most of the discussion has been over at Revolt of the ILX Brigade: New Post-Fahey Folk For PPL that post in the Takoma & Tompkin's Square Threads
he is awesome, looking forward to catching him live this summer.

just recently heard him too--i love Behold The Spirit; the newer one less so.

yeah, i'm leaning in that direction, too, though i do really like impossible truth. the live disc included on the recent imaginational anthem box is worth seeking out -- some really gorgeous stuff.

Lost Colony! YAY!

so good!

The Lost Colony 12" is the first material I've heard from this dude, but holy shit has it grabbed me. So captivating. All three tracks are so good. Love the nod to Television towards the end of "Whole New Dude". And how awesome is that pedal steel on "Karussell"?!?!
Kosmische American Music.

yeah he's great - would recommend his last one as well

also Chris Forsyth & the Solar Motel Band might be up your alley as well

Good one, was tipped to Forsyth in some 2013 eoy thread by Tylerw (who else ;). Great album. Tyler's stuff is more epic/grand, to my ears. Love the countryrock/kraut combo.

He's got a new one due out May 3. This one's called Modern Country.

Sorry June 3.

http://www.mergerecords.com/william-tyler-previews-modern-country

some cool sounds in that teaser vid ...

Awesome! This should be perfect for my Arizona vacation.

that is a very strange and kind of dumb video but yeah it sounds great

haha yeah the trailer is a bit much but the music in the background was SUPER promising, def the direction i was hoping he'd go in

yeah that last bit sounded great, pretty reich-ian... did not actually watch the vid.

yeah he must be using more loop pedals and stuff

i just thought of the DN "william tylerw", not gonna use it just had to get it out of my system

Super excited for this. Already pre-ordered.

Yeah, watching the video again, it is a bit heavy handed. But the music sounds really great.

Did anyone get that split thing he did with Six Organs of Admittance? This guy: https://www.discogs.com/Six-Organs-Of-Admittance-William-Tyler-Parallelogram/release/7950918

yeah his side is great (and streamable here - http://threelobed.bandcamp.com/album/parallelogram-5). six organs side is fab as well. my favorite out of all of those parallelogram things.

Cheers, Tyler. Listening now — totally good.

Wish I could buy it, though. For less than a hundred dollars or whatever.

yeah it is steep! nothing bad on the whole set though ... some of the artists were selling individual copies, but i don't know if six organs/tyler got around to that...

Well, you can buy the individual tracks on the bandcamp page, so I guess I'll settle for that, for now.

I wonder if Phil Cook's album Southland Mission is worth checking out? He has collaborated with William Tyler in the past.

I'd recommend the Phil Cook record, for sure. Feels a *little* too close to being a 'found' classic for its own good, but it's a great listen.

Phil Cook album didn't "catch" for me, but I also probably didn't give it enough of a chance. I want/ed to like it, for sure.

Tyler on the other hand, I'm a mega-stan. Excited for this album, loved the trailer. He put out a very similar feeling trailer for Impossible Truth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd0Jsyw_JDw

They are heavy handed, but I guess I feel like they're almost ... not cheekily, but knowingly so? ... I dunno, maybe I am giving him too much credit and he's just this way. (He's definitely sharp as a tack and a "big" thinker, having talked to him about some of this stuff.) But most of all I like that he's done a couple now and I hope he keeps doing them. I think they'd be fun to gather together after 10 albums or whatever.

Hmm, watching the Impossible Truth trailer, seems like he plays a bit from every song on the album. Contrasting that with the new one, he's only previewing one or two new songs. That actually makes me even more excited for Modern Country; like he's hiding more, in anticipation of a bigger reveal.

or it's just one long motorik-appalachian henry flynty jam, which is also super ok with me

Well, yeah.

There cannot be enough "long motorik-appalachian henry flynty jam"s, sincerely would take all I can get of this sound.

Yep. My expectations for Modern Country are fairly high because of that.

'Gone Clear'

my goodness. love it.

yeah, very nice!
haven't listened yet but this mix he put together for aquarium drunkard looks good: http://www.aquariumdrunkard.com/2016/04/12/aquarium-drunkard-presents-sebastian-speaks-a-mixtape/

also worth noting that Chuck Johnson's last record Velvet Arc covers some of the same territory as Tyler ... really wonderful record.

^^ thank you for mentioning it, love Chuck and keep meaning to check it out

'Kingdom of Jones'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDV2tJI3CMU

Got this in the mail today and have just put it on now.

'Highway Anxiety': holy hell, this is gonna be good.

Yeah, this album is fantastic.

Sublime.

It sounds wonderful on the first listen. I'm gonna have another listen later after a smoke.

this is a pretty good shadowfax album

i wish shadowfax actually sounded like this

ha, yeah, maybe i haven't heard the right shadowfax? there are definitely some proggy moments on Modern Country, but I dunno if it's overtly 'fax-y.

i like it, it just feels kinda safe and new age-y. maybe i got too excited after the rother cover on lost colony

Ha, there's nothing even remotely new age-y about Modern Country.

This is gorgeous. Perfect wake-up music.

Something Will Come gives me agita but the rest of the album is very cinematic, very comfortable, very warm. I agree that the mix of styles is obvious but I like how they mesh. Deeply enjoyable for me.

lost futures prompted me to go back to luke schneider collaboration, understand and i have to say, i will need to put this one back in regular rotation. i listened to it a bit when it was first released, but got caught up in saultmania yet again. listening to understand a bit closer now and i really am enjoying it quite a bit.

Quick note that Tyler and others have an awesome livestream show tonight, get tickets and watch!

Tonight ⚡ There is still time to get your ticket for Music for India, a special live concert to enjoy from home with @MoM_official featuring visuals by @reas & voice by Louis Chude-Sokei, joined by @SadierLae, @AmirthaKidambi, & @williamtylertn

Tickets: https://t.co/e7b06b56WV

— Gray Area (@GrayAreaorg) August 28, 2021

A couple years back I saw Tyler & Sarah Lipstate of Noveller play a show together at the Getty Center. It was a great pairing of seemingly disparate sounds and I was hoping that they would collaborate more since.

I can't keep this guy and William Howard straight in my mind

Oops I meant to post that in the other thread

I'm having lunch and watching r/place unfold and his cover of "Karussell" came on. Perfect soundtrack.

YAASSSSSSS!!!!!!

This is great. So stoked to hear his playing in this context. Pre-ordered the album before the song was half over.

luke schneider's on it too! this album's gonna be rad af.

lost futures prompted me to go back to luke schneider collaboration, understand and i have to say, i will need to put this one back in regular rotation. i listened to it a bit when it was first released, but got caught up in saultmania yet again. listening to understand a bit closer now and i really am enjoying it quite a bit.

― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Saturday, August 28, 2021 11:52 AM

in anticipation of secret stratosphere, i'm revisiting this again and i'm ready to plant my flag: understand is maybe the best thing wt has done so far.

Given the proximity of your recommendation of this to your post in the Fahey thread, Austin, I had a good feeling as to what this would sound like and... damn. Not sure how I'd missed until now. Right up my, ah, dried up gulch.

Posts with frankly appallingly striking imagery (and too many adjectives).

me and global and co. got to open for him and Marisa Anderson and he could not have been nicer

so yeah, there is definitely a kraftwerk cover on the new album.

"our favorite blue oyster cult song" ftw

wt is the f'kn man.

A couple years back we saw WT play with Noveller out in the courtyard of the Getty Center. They sounded great just winging it together and I've always hoped that they would make a record.

Yeah, that Kraftwerk cover didn't register when I saw the tracklist, but I was absolutely thrilled when I realized what that song was evolving into.

Oh this is really good. I love him overall, but nice to hear him in this live rock mode.

lol

he finishes playing "Whole New Dude" and says:

"that was a cover of a song by Rusted Root"

Stumbled across him via the mentions in the AOTY so far thread (sucker for a Kraftwerk cover). Really lovely, kosmische pedal steel reminds me a little of Raymond Richards' The Lost Art of Wandering. Huh, guess I've heard him before via Kelly Reichardt's First Cow!

new jams with mr hebden. very not bad!

Yeah I really like that. Also I see he's coming to town with his band in September, looking forward to it. I've seen him before but in more meditative mode.

Saw him with the band tonight in Chicago. I haven't heard that live album from last year, so I wasn't expecting it to be so loud and rockin', but I enjoyed it.

This live album is incredible. Dude absolutely rocks. Is the rest of his stuff like this?

Not exactly, that album is his most Rock thing. I love it too. The songs on it are mostly from his other albums, but the original versions are in general more meditative. All good tho! Impossible Truth and Modern Country are good places to start.

Yeah I'd heard of the bloke but thought he was a country singer-songrwiter type so didn't bother to check him out. I'll go diving in to see what else he's got, thanks for the recs

I think the Lost Colony EP is closest to the live album.

Impossible Truth is some great wide open desert music

also highly recommend the album he did a couple years ago with Marisa Anderson, Lost Futures

his first album Behold the Spirit is kind of forgotten now but it's great, a little more towards the Fahey side of things

his EP with Luke Schneider is gorgeous twangy ambient music, too

dude doesn't miss as far as i'm concerned

the Secret Stratosphere is a hall-of-fame live album and deserves all the praise. only wish "high anxiety" went closer to the original's length.

update on his instagram last week that he's canceling the rest of his tour to deal with a mental health crisis/alcoholism. he's always seemed like a really sweet dude, hope he gets all the help he needs.

wt 😥

cosign, don't know him personally but he just permeates good vibes. he also had covid twice.

he's got an incredibly musical mind and i have faith that his best material has yet to come to fruition. really can't help but cry at this news.

Upset to learn that he's struggling. Austin OTM that his best work is still to come

Damn, really get a lot from his music. Hope he can find his way back to health

https://williamtyler.bandcamp.com/album/time-indefinite

❤️‍🔥😡FUCK YEAH THE RETURN OF WT😡❤️‍🔥

Yeah, super happy to see that and encouraged by the sample tracks. Instant pre-order.

so i posted before listening.

this is something else entirely.

of course i think it's really good too, but wow.

Yeah, it's a major departure for him, but it's great!

Instant pre-order for me. 100% love the three tracks and the turn into the unknown

Yup, gonna be great!

had to pause about 30 seconds into that because i don't want to spoil too much... yeah, was not expecting that!

I am so excited for this album, and so happy to hear this new direction. Awesome.

My first thought was he must have been spending time with Alan Sparhawk

Was thinking more BJ Burton, but yeah

Sitting on my couch yelling just pick up the damn guitar

There’s a lot of guitar on two of the three preview tracks?

hp: do you prefer his more rock-oriented stuff? seems so from your previous postings. there's definitely guitar on this new material, but his playing isn't really "country of illusion" or "highway anxiety" either - moreso an added layer. traditional song structures were already very loosely followed anyway in his music, but time indefinite doesn't seem too concerned about that at all lol.

is anyone else getting caretaker vibes from this material?

I keep thinking of that Tyler + Noveller show I talked about upthread. Less songs, more structure!

Sorry there wasn't much thought to my post! Just shock reaction to the first 30 seconds of the first new song but I like his new stuff (and his guitar playing on it!)