William Tyler & The Impossible Truth - Secret Stratosphere [CD]

Merge Records

£13.05

Format: CD
Catalogue No.: MRG796CD
Barcode: 0673855079622
Release Date: 31 Mar 2023
Genre: Folk/Americana

Recorded live at Yellowhammer Brewing in Huntsville, Alabama, in May 2021, Secret Stratosphere finds William Tyler and fellow psychedelic dreamers The Impossible Truth refashioning prime cuts from the Nashville guitarist's rich catalog, casting new light onto once-familiar songs. Featuring the crackling combo of Jack Lawrence (Raconteurs, Dead Weather), Brian Kotzur (Silver Jews, Country Westerns), and Luke Schneider (solo, Margo Price), the quartet stretch the dynamics of Tyler's compositions to their fullest interdimensional potential, exposing a deep undercurrent of kosmische and post-rock influences (with the right amount of grit from the nitrous corner of the Dead Lot). In teasing these influences out on favorites and new songs alike he cheekily calls closer "Area Code 601" a "Hawkwind meets Charlie Daniels Band number" before sending the crowd home on a previously unreleased stunner that lives somewhere between mind-expanding prog and beer commercial–backing Southern rock Secret Stratosphere confirms William Tyler's place as one of our most brilliant guitarists, bandleaders, and composers.

Tracks: 01 Our Lady Of The Desert 02 Highway Anxiety Radioactivity 03 Whole New Dude 04 I'm Gonna Live Forever (If It Kills Me) 05 Gone Clear 06 We Can't Go Home Again 07 Area Code 601