Impossible Truth | Loppylugs

Submitted by Neil Hornsey on 3 April 2014 - 7:41pm

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Artist:

William Tyler

album-ID:

a_148

Nationality:

USA

Year:

2 013

Release-year:

0000

Num-of-tracks:

Track-listing:

Country of Illusion*The Geography of Nowhere*Cadillac Desert*We Can’t Go Home Again*A Portrait of Sarah*Hotel Catatonia*The Last Residents of Westfall*The World Set Free

Length-in-mins:

Nominator:

Bean

meeting-ID:

m_57

Now-num:

2 014

Spotify-URL:

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Grooveshark-URL:

Impossible+Truth/9018793

Short-title:

impossibleTruth

nominator-ID:

u_13

Meeting-date:

Thursday, 24 April 2014

MusicBrainz-URL:

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Wikipedia-URL:

Impossible_Truth

Spotify-link-type:

album

Metacritic-URL:

impossible-truth/william-tyler

Discogs-URL:

William-Tyler-Impossible-Truth/master/541004

Allmusic-URL:

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rdio-URL:

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reviewed by

Neil Hornsey

I knew this bloke once

8

This is a very nice, mellow album, which is great to put on in the background while doing other stuff. But however much I wanted to love it, it never quite hit the spot enough to justify more than a 7 out of 10. The guitar work is competent and clever, but he's not a genius. It perhaps needs more tracks like the last, which has interesting layers of other sounds going on, such as feedback and slide guitars.
60

reviewed by

Glyn Lewis

William, it was really nothing

8

An hour long album of largely unaccompanied and largely acoustic, classically tinged guitar picking patterns could either do with some fantastic virtuoso playing or some great songwriting mixed in to keep me awake. Sadly this has neither.

Even when big guitar names do unimaginable and improbable things to their instruments in this sort of style, I do tend to find my attention wandering fairly quickly, so this was always going to be a big ask. This guy is skilled, but not in that league. It’s a very difficult thing to do, one man, one guitar. There’s not a huge range of tone with an acoustic guitar. It’s default setting is chirpy and upright, strummy and light. You’ve got to work pretty hard to get some variation, better still play with some other instruments or a singer maybe.

He’s undoubtedly a very able guitarist (I can’t help feel that his desire to demonstrate that is his motivation for making this album) but he’s not much of a songsmith. He does manage a bit of a tune on the last one and even introduces a bit of noisy electric guitar, which is great, and is in danger of waking everyone up at that point. But for me that was too little too late.
56

reviewed by

Richard Norbury
40

reviewed by

Matthew Baker

Which Tyler started peasants revolt?

Sorry Neil but I can't remember a bloody thing about this album. Probably a 4.