| Tyler, William / Modern Country |
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| Album: | Modern Country | Collection: | General | |
| Artist: | Tyler, William | Added: | Jun 2016 | |
| Label: | Merge Records | |||
| A-File Activity |
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| Add Date: | 2016-08-08 | Pull Date: | 2016-10-10 |
| Week Ending: | Oct 9 | Oct 2 | Sep 18 | Sep 11 | Aug 28 | Aug 21 | Aug 14 |
| Airplays: | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
| 1. | Jan 14, 2017: | Narnia Highway Anxiety | 4. | Sep 28, 2016: | Minimum Entropy The Great Unwind | |
| 2. | Oct 08, 2016: | Music Casserole Highway Anxiety | 5. | Sep 17, 2016: | Narnia I'm Gonna Live Forever (If It Kills Me), The Great Unwind | |
| 3. | Oct 01, 2016: | Narnia Highway Anxiety | 6. | Sep 10, 2016: | Narnia Highway Anxiety |
| Album Review |
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| DJ Aporia Reviewed 2016-08-07 | ||
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All instrumental fingerpicked guitar, among the stalwart 21st century Fahey followers like Steve Gunn, Hiss Golden Messenger. This time around, Tyler’s joined by a band including Phil Cook and Wilco’s Glenn Kotche. The sound is spacious, warm, authentic—a throwback to the heyday of country, but with a modern wordless twist. Favorites: 1, 2, 3, 6, 7. No FCCs. 1. (9:06) **** Highway Anxiety—Transcendent song. Ambling, pensive, unhurried. Wait till the drums kick in. One of my favorite songs of the year. 2. (5:25) *** I’m Gonna Live Forever (If It Kills Me)—Fast lilting bluesy guitar, bright, wide-eyed. Drums, piano riffs. Steve Gunn was here. 3. (3:32) ** Kingdom of Jones—Spry guitar tricks, content, lakeside atmospherics. 4. (3:17) Albion Moonlight—Slower with a patient groove. 5. (6:08) Gone Clear—Vibrant, chaotic. Lots more instruments than just guitar—I hear chimes, synths, bass, effects. 6. (4:17) ** Sunken Garden—Drums, piano, guitar. Cool and placid but with a darker undercurrent heard in the piano. 7. (8:26) ** The Great Unwind—Distortion, field recordings of birds, organ, just an epic track. Closes the album with hushed, optimistic resolution. | ||
| Track Listing |
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| 1. | Highway Anxiety | 4. | Albion Moonlight | |||
| 2. | I'm Gonna Live Forever (If It Kills Me) | 5. | Gone Clear | |||
| 3. | Kingdom Of Jones | 6. | Sunken Garden | |||
| 7. | The Great Unwind | |||||