Yeah, 'Highway Anxiety' in particular has strong Rother vibes.
― Austin, Monday, 11 July 2016 19:37 (eight years ago) link
http://thirdmanstore.com/tmr-live/live-12-series/william-tyler-live-at-third-man-records-12?___SID=ULive at Third Man Records to be released at the end of this month. Recorded in 2014 (short review here), it contains an early version of "Gone Clear", then called "Going Clear". Curious to hear how he pulls that one off acoustically.
― willem, Wednesday, 20 July 2016 07:59 (eight years ago) link
yeah this is really nice
― That's when I fired off my 2 Tweets to Dr. Phil (crüt), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
This snuck in at 57th out of 57 (so far) in my big secret albums of the year list, indicating that I liked it just enough to consider it a good album. Will definitely give it another go at some point
― Dave Plaintive rapper with classical training (imago), Wednesday, 7 December 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link
Any other music by not-Kurt Lambchop people worth exploring?
― djh, Monday, 24 July 2017 22:02 (seven years ago) link
New album Goes West out January 2019. First available track sounds great but feels a little too comfy maybe... Bill Frisell guests on the album closer!https://youtu.be/br4BRG_RXO0
― willem, Thursday, 8 November 2018 10:15 (five years ago) link
count me in!
― niels, Thursday, 8 November 2018 11:15 (five years ago) link
lovely song, I like the concise approach
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Thursday, 8 November 2018 13:36 (five years ago) link
Preordered.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Monday, 12 November 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
Lovely listen.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 12 November 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
new album is out
― Number None, Friday, 25 January 2019 13:12 (five years ago) link
Mine came in the mail on Wednesday, but I have not done the digital download yet, so I've not listened (no internet on my PC at the new place, so I'm stuck downloading to an external drive and handling things from there).
It came with a CD that has eight extra tracks. Gonna finish a new recording this evening and then dig in.
Excited.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 25 January 2019 17:26 (five years ago) link
I've made some utterly unfair judgments based on the tracklist alone: I like rambling, drifting Tyler best of all and this is made up of short tracks.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Friday, 25 January 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
This is super mellow and super good.
The bonus disc is called Dispatches from Echo Magic and is mostly made up of demos of songs on the album. It's nice.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 27 January 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
I was oblivious to this preorder only bonus disc thing now I feel like I'm missing out!
― Evan, Sunday, 27 January 2019 02:06 (five years ago) link
Was really digging “Venus in Aquarius,” wish there was a little more variation like that on the album but it’s all very nice.
― JoeStork, Sunday, 27 January 2019 02:07 (five years ago) link
Evan, I will share Dispatches, if you are interested. It's good if you REALLY like Goes West and want more.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 27 January 2019 06:29 (five years ago) link
The more I listen to this, the more I like it. It's easily his accessible work yet, but there is an ethereal, yet undeniably bright, timbre to the whole thing that just doesn't sound like anything else he's ever done. There is an irreverent, but melancholy, mood to it that makes it sound like it's being beamed in from an alternate mid-1970s. A place where John Fahey and Leo Kottke are the ultimate rock stars and Blood on the Tracks actually saved Bob Dylan and his marriage. The only bad news is from the past and nothing's perfect, but it's better than it used to be.
Yeah, I think I like this new one.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 27 January 2019 14:51 (five years ago) link
okay fine i’ll listen. the new steve gunn still sounds boring to me. you’re getting to me ogmor
― global tetrahedron, Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:01 (five years ago) link
I can't get enough of this album. It's like, what if Michael Rother started hanging out with Bert Jansch and then he followed Bert to LA, started playing acoustic a little more often, and, around the time Bert makes Avocet, he makes Michael Rother Goes West.
William Tyler coming through with a nice spectral projection.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Sunday, 27 January 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
Man in a Hurry is gorgeous.
― Good cop, Babcock (Chinaski), Sunday, 27 January 2019 18:33 (five years ago) link
https://williamtyler.bandcamp.com/album/new-vanitas
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 4 September 2020 15:37 (four years ago) link
i haven't even listened to it yet, just saw it on his bandcamp right now and holy shit, new william tyler!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 4 September 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
after one listen, this is the surprise of the year so far for me. modern country and goes west were awesome, don't get me wrong, but they feel a little too overproduced in retrospect. this new one goes back to his older, more sparse approach. maybe that was out of necessity, as this year has constricted a lot of people in a lot of ways. references to heaven and "the big sky" in the song titles up the emotive ante significantly. all that combined with his more prominent use of pitch vibrato effects and the seemingly intentional 'throwback' aesthetic of the cover art make this seem like something beamed in from the past at some unknown, but vaguely familiar point.
besides all that, it's reaffirmation from one of my old favorites of his undeniably classic status; and doubly rewarding, as i had perhaps started to neglect him in more recent times.
here's the cover art, btw:https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1109290106_10.jpg
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 5 September 2020 16:43 (four years ago) link
also: an appropriate alternate title for this one could have been wt goes boc.
can't say enough good things about this record.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Saturday, 5 September 2020 16:45 (four years ago) link
i was listening to this on my morning walk Friday and came to the realization that, in a quiet, sort of understated way (meaning sometimes i forget), WT has become one of my very favorite artists going.
― alpine static, Saturday, 5 September 2020 20:56 (four years ago) link
this has been on constant rotation since friday. easily his best work since lost colony and easily in my top three of the year so far.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 8 September 2020 22:30 (four years ago) link
i'm real excited for this.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 30 April 2021 17:06 (three years ago) link
I loved New Vanitas, what is "this"?
― rob, Friday, 30 April 2021 17:40 (three years ago) link
oh duh I just saw that's a link
― rob, Friday, 30 April 2021 17:41 (three years ago) link
awesome, nabbed a vinyl preorder
Love Tyler, love Marissa Anderson even more, they seem like they should be a good fit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 April 2021 17:58 (three years ago) link
i wish they were doing a regular black vinyl version. fuck that bullshit colored garbage. yuck.
that said, cover art's amazing.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 30 April 2021 21:03 (three years ago) link
and the teaser track is excellent. very stoked for this.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 30 April 2021 21:05 (three years ago) link
It is not explicit but it may be implied a regular version will follow(?); Thrill Jockey website says purple is "mail order only" version. IDK!
― Evan, Friday, 30 April 2021 21:09 (three years ago) link
― Evan, Friday, April 30, 2021 4:09 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink
ah goddamn...oh well
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 April 2021 21:11 (three years ago) link
Fwiw, I've seen that with other Thrill Jockey releases they'll do a colored vinyl release first and then a standard black when that sells out.
― soaring skrrrtpeggios (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 30 April 2021 21:12 (three years ago) link
I don't mind the color vinyl. I don't have enough high-end equipment to pretend it makes a difference for me personally.
― Evan, Friday, 30 April 2021 21:16 (three years ago) link
i just don't like colored vinyl because, well idk, i like THE ACTUAL MUSIC????
sorry, i'll stop being a cynical dickhead now.
NEW WILLIAM TYLER YASSZZZ BITCHEZZZ!!!!
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 30 April 2021 21:27 (three years ago) link
Colored vinyl is fine, no more likely to have a bad pressing than black these days (IME).
Thanks for the link, got a copy.
― bulb after bulb, Friday, 30 April 2021 21:41 (three years ago) link
The music is there either way! Plus if all I was in it for was the MUSIC I wouldn't be buying clunky giant wax discs that only work at home with annoying and sometimes stressful to set up equipment, so I'm not going to kid myself, I am an irrational object collector hoarder and I am proud content with it.
― Evan, Friday, 30 April 2021 21:42 (three years ago) link
don't get me wrong, i'm a stubborn jerk and i'm mostly making fun of myself. i pre-ordered the vinyl anydamnway lol.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Friday, 30 April 2021 22:20 (three years ago) link
There's another new William Tyler release! It's also on Spotify, so we're listening now — only one track in, but it's very "cosmic"; nice!!!
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Wednesday, 14 July 2021 16:46 (three years ago) link
well, fuck. get well soon!
Y’all I hate this but - despite following all CDC guidelines in the last year and being fully vaccinated I received a positive Covid test this morning. Effective immediately I am canceling all my shows in the next week— william tyler (@williamtylertn) July 23, 2021
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 23 July 2021 15:58 (three years ago) link
Lost Futures is out today.
first listen now and it's very. . . eerie and haunting, but also very beautiful in spots. i really love how the recording sounds, very earthy and kind of lofi. seems like a darn good record.
hope wt is on the mend.
― things repeat forever and there never is a remedy (Austin), Friday, 27 August 2021 21:55 (three years ago) link
New album is excellent
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 August 2021 15:30 (three years ago) link
I think it's great, I think they mesh very well together. I consider Marisa Anderson on a bit of a higher level than Tyler, but they are both great and this feels like it has elements of each of their music and a lot of stuff that feels unique to this project
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 28 August 2021 15:32 (three years ago) link
vinyl is colored unfortunately but seems to be a good pressing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 28 August 2021 15:33 (three years ago) link
I'm not in love with it yet but need to listen more. Marisa has an effortless looseness and William was always among the stiffest sounding players imo, so it was interesting to hear what they came up with together.
― Evan, Saturday, 28 August 2021 16:12 (three years ago) link
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.
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 28 August 2021 17:30 (three years ago) link
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, 28 August 2021 18:52 (three years ago) link