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- Summary: The fourth full-length release for the Nashville singer-songwriter was written mostly while staying in a cabin in Mississippi.
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- Record Label: Merge
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Alternative Pop/Rock, Indie Folk
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Jun 13, 2016Modern Country is a beatific and expansive ambient record daubed in acoustic and electric guitars, analogue oscillations, some really scary bells and no words; its meaning can be fluid.
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UncutJun 1, 2016At a time when a generation of US roots guitarists are reaching creative maturity, Modern Country reasserts Tyler's place at their forefront. [Jul 2016, p.81]
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Jun 1, 2016Whether he’s teasing out the darkest parts of America’s history with an acoustic guitar, or allowing a genteel tremolo to ring as a meditation on modernization, it’s easy to get caught up in the disorienting, psychedelic drift of past becoming present. It’s even easier to just relax and float downstream.
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Jun 2, 2016Backed by an all-star band that notably includes Wilco’s Glenn Kotche and Megafaun’s Phil Cook, Tyler is able to summon a wide range of moods, from plaintive pastoral folk to a particular kind of kosmische American music that fuses Brad Cook’s spacey synths and Luke Schneider’s gorgeous pedal steel like a slow, steady breeze on a hot summer day.
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Jun 20, 2016An instrumental album that never fails to hold the listeners attention, with a plethora of quotable passages and delightful moments. A coming of age album.
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Jul 11, 2016Tyler explores the boundless opportunities within a few great riffs, while drifting from time to time to explore odd structural detours.
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Q MagazineJun 6, 2016An exquisitely warm, olde-worlde soup in which to bathe one's auditory senses. [#361, p.116]
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