{"product_id":"william-tyler-time-indefinite","title":"William Tyler - Time Indefinite","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter crucial stints in Silver Jews and Lambchop, William Tyler emerged\r\nwith a string of inquisitive albums that paired his country rearing and\r\nclassical enthusiasm with his ardor for experimentation and field\r\nrecordings. His productive enclave of instrumental music has not only\r\nushered in new sounds, but also critical new voices. No other solo\r\nAmerican guitarist this century has impacted that fecund scene quite\r\nlike him. And on the brilliant, bracing Time Indefinite, Tyler's first solo\r\nalbum in five years, he steps at last into the widening gyre he helped\r\ncreate. The guitar is the starting point for an album that will make you\r\nreconsider not only Tyler but also the possibilities of an entire field. A\r\nvortex of noise and harmony, ghosts and dreams, anguish and hope, it\r\nis not just a great guitar record. It is a stunning record by a great\r\nguitarist, a masterpiece of our collectively anxious time.\r\nIn early 2020, as the world teetered at the edge of unrests still\r\nunimagined, Tyler left LA for Nashville, where he'd lived most of his life.\r\nMost of his gear and all of his records stayed, awaiting a presumed\r\nrapid return. It, of course, wasn't. So as Tyler dealt with the depression,\r\nnerves, and questions of those endlessly tense times, he began\r\nrecording ideas with his phone and a cassette deck, resigning himself to\r\nthe distortion inherent in those devices. Tyler was talking with Kieran\r\nHebden about making a record together, and some of these bits felt like\r\ntest cases. As that collaboration crept in other directions Tyler magpied\r\nother sounds. He asked longtime friend, producer Jake Davis, to help\r\nstitch them together, opting to embrace the hiss and wobble and to\r\nunintentionally make a record that reflected those times and\r\nthese-uneasy, damaged, honest.\r\nA seesaw of struggle and survival defines these songs, a map of\r\nanguish and belief and the trails that link them. \"This is a mental illness\r\nrecord,\" Tyler will tell you without shame, as open in life and speech as\r\nhe is on tape. \"It's music about losing your mind but not wanting to,\r\nabout trying to come back.\" He doesn't need to tell you that; you can\r\nfeel it, possibly recognize it from your own experience.\r\nTyler's albums have been nests of non-musical influences, as he has\r\npivoted between spirituality and philosophy and summoned the\r\nlandscapes of the greater American imagination. Time Indefinite is no\r\ndifferent, especially in the way it conjures the deeply personal films of\r\nRoss McElwee. In the mid-'80s, he began to make a movie about\r\nSherman's march through the South, but it spiraled into a tangled\r\nhistory about family, loss, and what we do when our best instincts\r\nsurrender to the worst things we can imagine. The record is a nod to this\r\nidea, of time's relentless push and our place in, beneath, and beside it. It\r\nis no great revelation that the lives we lead shape the work we make,\r\nwhether or not we intend that to be the case. In these songs, you can\r\nhear Tyler wrestle with incoming demons out loud-addiction, middle\r\nage, loneliness, neurosis. All of our struggles are different, but we are\r\nunited in having them. This is the soundtrack that Tyler's create.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Alliance Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54211869114697,"sku":"850056058704","price":0.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0970\/7329\/9785\/files\/4411088-3333017.jpg?v=1776399535","url":"https:\/\/vintagespinvinyl.com\/products\/william-tyler-time-indefinite","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}