William Tyler

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.

https://williamtyler.bandcamp.com/album/new-vanitas

i haven't even listened to it yet, just saw it on his bandcamp right now and holy shit, new william tyler!

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

also: an appropriate alternate title for this one could have been wt goes boc.

can't say enough good things about this record.

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.

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.

i'm real excited for this.

I loved New Vanitas, what is "this"?

oh duh I just saw that's a link

awesome, nabbed a vinyl preorder

Love Tyler, love Marissa Anderson even more, they seem like they should be a good fit

i wish they were doing a regular black vinyl version. fuck that bullshit colored garbage. yuck.

that said, cover art's amazing.

and the teaser track is excellent. very stoked for this.

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!

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, April 30, 2021 4:09 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

ah goddamn...oh well

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.

I don't mind the color vinyl. I don't have enough high-end equipment to pretend it makes a difference for me personally.

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!!!!

Colored vinyl is fine, no more likely to have a bad pressing than black these days (IME).

Thanks for the link, got a copy.

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.

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.

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!!!

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

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.

New album is excellent

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

vinyl is colored unfortunately but seems to be a good pressing

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.

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!!!!!!