Tandyn Almer -- What the Hell?

Came upon this thread only to realize I started it. 🤦‍♂️ But fascinating that his SIL came to post here.

Finally digging into Along Comes Tandyn – I seem to recall Ugly Things did something on him at some point, I need to find that (fake edit: I’ve apparently read it, listened to this record before and posted about it on the UT thread even).

It doesn’t seem like his estate has been able to get anything else out?

i LOVE "along comes tandyn"

would love to hear more — "more than 400 cassette tapes" !!!

there's apparently an author / journalist named randi minetor who writes about nature / travel, i wonder if it's the same person.

Listening to Along Comes Tandlyn on youtube right now: demos, but pretty well-recorded, guitar sound a little rough, but keeps melodies from seeming too smooth, w piano punctuation, full bass and drums that don't get in the way---will prob suggests this next time somebody asks about power-pop---about half way in, none of the expected verbosity---mainly solo voice, a little echo, flexible enough---could imagine the Monkees doing several of these---still something mainly representative of West Coast folk-rock-pop competing with British Invasion, but not really so very distinctive so far, to non-specialist ears:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyhB_f9rmeY&list=OLAK5uy_nQfZ1cctzinW0WcOgdb-k20xOkZ8zLyls

Try again, anyway it's on there (Tandyn, not Tandlyn, sorry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyhB_f9rmeY&list=OLAK5uy_nQfZ1cctzinW0WcOgdb-k20xOkZ8zLyls

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyhB_f9rmeY&list=RDKyhB_f9rmeY&start_radio=1

What the hell indeed (tried firefox and chrome)

well in any case it's available, on youtube and spotify, and it's pretty easy to acquire a physical copy on the secondhand market.

one of my favorite of his tunes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtQj7yVOXlQ

Yeah – to the extent Almer had a “style,” it seems a number of his songs have this kind of verbose syncopated rap going on, where the melody sort of cascades and tumbles over the lyrics. See this in a few tracks on ACT as well as “Along Comes Mary” and stuff like the bridge to “Sail On Sailor.”