Album Review: 41 Longfield Street Late '80s by Kieran Hebden + William Tyler

Outside of his current high profile remit as the focal point of large-scale dance music spectacles, Kieran "Four Tet" Hebden's far-ranging musical adventures have taken in post-rock (as one third of Fridge), production duties for improv-driven new weird Americana heads Sunburned Hand of the Man and, on early solo albums such as 2003's Rounds, folk/electronica hybrids commonly known as 'folktronica'. Whilst William Tyler is probably still best known for such widescreen albums as 2013's Impossible Truth and 2016's Modern Country which catapulted the still fruitful, dirt track-tramping toolkit of folk-and blues-rooted US solo guitar traditions to the unstoppable and glossy multi-lane momentum of a contemporary autobahn, the guitarist and composer has long dabbled in more electronically enhanced templates, culminating in this year's stunningly evocative masterpiece of uneasy Americana and ominous ambient hiss, Time Indefinite. As such, although they started from far-apart corners of the musical spectrum, Hebden and Tyler have gradually drifted towards each other's stylistic post code areas.

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It's a collaboration whose announce caused no end of ruffled brows. Four Tet producer Kieran Hebden is a formidable electronic figure, while William Tyler is a Primitive guitarist, a sculptor of gilded Americana. Peer beneath that headline, however, and you'll find common ground - Four Tet's early 00s work was dubbed folktronica for its use of organic, analogue sounds, while William Tyler's work has embraced both the electric guitar, and electricity itself.

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