Kieran Hebden, William Tyler 41 Longfield Street Late ’80s

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• 41 Longfield Street Late 80s is a rich and evocative collaboration between Kieran Hebden (Four Tet) and William Tyler that maps a shared fascination with 80s American country and folk into ambient, electronic, and guitar-driven soundscapes. Built around memories, mood, and texture rather than straight genre homage, the album blends Tylers expressive fingerpicked guitar work with Hebdens deft atmospherics and synthetic manipulations. The opening 11-minute reimagining of Lyle Lovetts If I Had a Boat establishes the tone: familiar yet transformed, rooted in nostalgia but unafraid to roam into abstraction. Across its seven tracks including Spider Ballad, Timber, and the meditative Secret City the duo explore spaces between memory and experiment, letting moods drift and textures emerge.

  Recorded between Los Angeles and Nashville, the album draws on the artists mutual upbringing around music like that of Lyle Lovett, Joe Ely, Nancy Griffith, and David Grissom. It is past-looking without being stuck there, offering moments of warmth, gentle introspection, and occasional bursts of distortion or drone. The result is a contemplative even cinematic work that feels as much about reflection as about invention, suggesting that the sounds of ones youth can still be fertile ground for unexpected artistry.

  Reviews

  41 Longfield Street Late 80s serves as a tribute to 1980s Americana and country music, genres deeply rooted in both artists upbringings. The Guardian

  The unlikely pairing of electronica auteur Kieran Hebden with guitar alchemist William Tyler results in a meditative gem in 41 Longfield Street Late 80s. The Line of Best Fit

  Opener If I Had A Boat is the loveliest track Ive heard all year, an 11-minute exploration of Lyle Lovetts country classic that slips along on a gorgeous guitar motif before sinking slowly beneath a bubbling, teeming sea of electronics and feedback. NARC. Magazine

• Artist: William Tyler, Kieran Hebden Label: Temporary Residence Limited Format: LP Units: 1 Country: US Genre: Electronic Style: Experimental

• A1 If I Had A Boat
  A2 Spider Ballad
  B1 I Want An Antenna
  B2 When It Rains
  B3 Timber
  B4 Loretta Guides My Hands Through The Radio
  B5 Secret City