Glide was lucky to get on the phone and catch up with Ryley about the upcoming album Course in Fable ( out 4/3), his move from NYC to Vermont, and much. So I say this confidently and proudly: Ryley Walker is an inspiration. Instead, he’s made his most assured, most direct album since 2015’s Primrose Green. Now Ryley is running his own small indie-label, doing all his own public relations, and in simple terms: he is killing it. Ryley Walker could have continued with the disjointed style of Deafman Glance. The album ends with the similarly delicate, poised “Shiva With Dustpan”. “A Lenticular Slap” is proggier but in the same vein. ![]() But thankfully, the Chicago rockers rigorous approach to songwriting and his roots in jazz. It features a slew of his longtime collaborators, including Bill MacKay, Ryan Jewell, and Andrew Scott Young, and it was. The string-infused “Rang Dizzy” is lovely, shimmering like light seen through swaying branches. Utilizamos cookies y herramientas similares que son necesarias para permitirte comprar, mejorar tus experiencias de compra y proporcionar nuestros servicios, según se detalla en nuestro Aviso de cookies. RYLEY WALKER COURSE IN FABLE RYLEY Walker may have jokingly described this as his 'prog record'. Course In Fable is dropping in April on Walker’s own Husky Pants label. Ultimately, Course In Fable elegantly distils all that he has been so far. Walker’s playing has the math-rock fidgetiness and twists of album producer/engineer John McEntire’s Tortoise, but this is an overtly poppy album. But really, the self-issued Course In Fable is much more about the song than the fragmented Deafman Glance and the circular compositions of its predecessor Golden Sings That Have Been Sung. Perhaps, too, there’s some Up On The Sun-era Meat Puppets in there. OK, album opener “Striking Down Your Big Premiere” is proggy and sports Steve Hackett-esque guitar. Indeed, as he did with his last solo album, 2018’s Deafman Glance, he’s said Genesis have fed into what’s heard. It’s impossible to listen to a new Ryley Walker album without thoughts turning to possible influences or trying to work out what he might be incorporating into his music. ![]() Next up, “Pond Scum Ocean” is more linear overall but odder: it evokes Flowers of Romance Public Image Ltd fused with and tempered by, again, John Martyn. Produced with Chicago / Portland experimental rock icon John Mcentire (Tortoise, Sea And Cake, Gastr Del Sol. Three-minutes, 30-seconds into the atmospheric, jazzy, King Crimson-meets-John Martyn nugget “Clad With Bunk” a sudden blast of “Spirit in the Sky” fuzz guitar opens the door on the song’s freak-out coda, a hard-edged outro nodding towards Swedish psych-heads Dungen. First Ryley Walker LP of original songs in 3 years.
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