William Tyler

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.

this is really great.

that's my four-word review.

This is easily in my three favourite albums of the year, I love how it's a country record, an ambient record and a sort of post-rock record all at once, except way more melodically engaging than that implies.

I've been craving really gentle music over the last few weeks so it's been getting a lot of play in my house.

Yep, it's a total winner. Didn't know if he would be able to follow up Impossible Truth given the high quality of that album, but he somehow managed.

ya rly enjoying this but like i said in the folk/fahey thread

if you like this do your yrself a favour and hunt down loose furs first album bc it has a similar vibe tho its a bit more noisier with some freakouts

This reminds me so much of Michael Rother solo stuff like Flammende Herzen. Warm, melodic, romantic and metaphysical at the same time. Album of the year from what I have heard - which is not a lot - up till now.

Yeah, 'Highway Anxiety' in particular has strong Rother vibes.

http://thirdmanstore.com/tmr-live/live-12-series/william-tyler-live-at-third-man-records-12?___SID=U
Live 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.

yeah this is really nice

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

Any other music by not-Kurt Lambchop people worth exploring?

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

count me in!

lovely song, I like the concise approach

Preordered.

Lovely listen.

new album is out

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.

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.

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.

I was oblivious to this preorder only bonus disc thing now I feel like I'm missing out!

Was really digging “Venus in Aquarius,” wish there was a little more variation like that on the album but it’s all very nice.

Evan, I will share Dispatches, if you are interested. It's good if you REALLY like Goes West and want more.

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.

okay fine i’ll listen. the new steve gunn still sounds boring to me. you’re getting to me ogmor

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.

Man in a Hurry is gorgeous.

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