William Tyler - "Flight Final"
Listen here. Over the course of his career, William Tyler has evolved from a skilled journeyman to a center-stage auteur in his own right. The guitar might be his native tongue as an instrumentalist, but to call him a guitarist at this point feels woefully insufficient; there’s a restless sweep to his music that resists boundaries, like a rambling road trip with no chosen destination. Tyler always conjures a vivid sense of place, but compositions like his new recording “Flight Final” are as much experiences in time, unmooring the listener from their present surroundings until you’re adrift in a sea of pure sound. He's increasingly turned not just to field recordings repurposed into new shapes, but to found objects transformed intro instruments: "Flight Final" was recorded with an iPhone and a tape machine scavenged from the home of his late grandfather, rendering sounds as impressionistic textures. Voices on the distant horizon fade in and out, as if some divine hand is s...
