Lost Futures

Description

Guitarists Marisa Anderson and William Tyler distil deeply rooted and varied traditions into distinctive voices all their own. Anderson and Tyler are each unyielding in their desire to extend through those traditions and the confines of guitar music to craft music at once intimate and expansive, conversational and transcendent.

The duos debut collaborative album tethers together their singular voices into unified narratives that glisten, drive and sway. On Lost Futures, Anderson and Tylers guitars dance through lush arrangements and pastoral duets serpentine and reverent.

Lost Futures takes its name from writer Mark Fishers cultural theory of the loss of potential futures, the hopes and ideals which once felt inevitable but have since been interrupted. Anderson and Tylers use of textural drones, rhythmic repetition and harmonic shifts embody the building tensions of uncertainty created by profound loss: loss of life, experience, companionship, compassion. Across Lost Futures, Anderson and Tyler mold their instruments into breathtaking panoramas of blight and bliss. Each movement contains a dense biome of transportive sound.

The duos music together reckons with mounting pressures as well as the joy of newfound friendship and gratitude for being able to play together. In tandem, Marisa Anderson and William Tyler have composed a work of remarkable breadth, brimming with resplendent odes of solace.

Marisa Anderson and William Tyler are both prolific solo artists. Tyler has also toured with groups including Lambchop and Silver Jews and Marisa has contributed to recordings by Beth Ditto, Sharon Van Etten and Circuit Des Yeux among others.

Lost Futures features guests Gisela Rodriguez Fernandez on violin and Patricia Vázquez Gómez playing quijada.

Package features artwork by Sam Smith. LPs include artworked inner-sleeve featuring photography by Marisa Anderson.

Also available to independent retailers on blue coloured vinyl.