catalogue

TYLER, WILLIAM & THE IMPOSSIBLE TRUTH

SECRET STRATOSPHERE (MERGE)

TYLER, WILLIAM & THE IMPOSSIBLE TRUTH - SECRET STRATOSPHERE 157394
format:
1 CD
release:
07.04.2023
label:
MERGE
item ID:
157394
barcode:
0673855079622
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.
 
  • Tracklisting
  • 1.1. OUR LADY OF THE DESERT
  • 1.2. HIGHWAY ANXIETY RADIOACTIVITY
  • 1.3. WHOLE NEW DUDE
  • 1.4. I'M GONNA LIVE FOREVER (IF IT KILLS ME)
  • 1.5. GONE CLEAR
  • 1.6. WE CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN
  • 1.7. AREA CODE 601