Zohaib Nashville-based guitarist/composer William Tyler releases his new album Time Indefinite, today via Psychic Hotline and shares the video for “Howling at the Second Moon,” directed and edited by Elise Tyler. Of the inspiration behind the song, Tyler says: “There’s this striking painting that used to hang in my dad’s office; I think a friend of his who went to art school in Mississippi painted it- but it’s abstract shapes and colors that conjure the thought of a pack of animals at nighttime. The painting is called ‘Howling at the Second Moon.’” Of the song’s recording process he explains: “I had recorded this sometime in 2019 as a demo but then lost the other recording that accompanied it where I actually went through the tuning for it. So for years I couldn’t actually play it because I forgot how I wrote it. About a year ago I discovered the tuning on some long hidden voice memo. Maybe the spirit of Joni Mitchell or Vini Reilly helped me out.”
Watch the Video for “Howling at the Second Moon”
No other solo American guitarist this century has impacted that fecund scene quite like William Tyler. After crucial stints in Silver Jews and Lambchop, this adopted son of Nashville emerged at the dawn of the last decade with a string of inquisitive albums that paired the measure of his country rearing and classical enthusiasm with his ardor for post-modern experimentation, field recordings and static drifts folded beneath exquisite melodies.
On the brilliant, bracing, and inexorably beautiful Time Indefinite, Tyler’s first solo album in six years, he steps at last into the widening gyre he helped create. The guitar serves as a starting point for an album that will make you reconsider not only Tyler but also the possibilities and reach of an entire field. A vortex of noise and harmony, ghosts and dreams, anguish and hope, Time Indefinite is not a great guitar record. It is a stunning record—a masterpiece of our collectively anxious time, really—by a great guitarist.
Tyler will embark on an extensive US tour in May on the heels of a whirlwind of shows at Big Ears festival last month. A full list of shows is below with tickets and further information available here.
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