Kieran Hebden + William Tyler

“I met William Tyler at Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee back in 2013. We had mutual friends and kept in touch. Every now and then the idea would come up of us working together. We first tried it remotely, sending ideas back and forth, which resulted in our 12” release, Darkness, Darkness. The plan was to get into a studio together, which we managed in early 2022 in Los Angeles at Sargent Recorders where my friend Sam (Floating Points) had just made his album with Pharoah Sanders. Our idea for the album was to make music that focused on that influence and brought it to the front of our awareness. We’d record the guitars in the studio, exploring styles and sounds from that music, and then I’d take it all home to my computer and bring it into my other world." – Kieran Hebden

"We bonded over a mutual love of a lot of late ‘90s post-rock and such, but I have to admit I was kinda shocked (in the best way) that he was so versed in ‘80s Americana. Not so much my world, but definitely a world I grew up around. I never thought that a connection with someone like Kieran would end up coming down to both of our dads and their mutual love of a certain kind of music. I grew up in Nashville, he grew up in London. But we heard things the same way, I think." – William Tyler