It’s out now via Walker’s own label, Husky Pants. It’s split into two tracks, and each goes in a bunch of directions. Now more than ever, it’s nice to have a reminder of that kind of uniquely live experience. Anyone who’s seen either act live knows that exploratory, improvised passages are some of the key rewarding aspects of their shows. Positive: 10 out of 10 With the totally triumphant Course In Fable, Walker has devised the ultimate two finger salute to anyone who has ever pinned him down as an artist chained to vintage inspirations: this exciting, moving, beautiful and complex album sounds only and exclusively like Ryley Walker music. One of those happened when Walker and Kikagaku Moyo got together for some long jams in 2018. The two artists joined forces at the 2018 installment of the Utrecht festival Le Guess Who? That’s a unique festival, one where you can often find more experimental artists with much bigger stages than you could imagine them having in most other contexts, one where the bookers and the artists they invite as guest curators prize one-off performances and unique collaborations. Of course, they immediately caught my attention with two facing drum. It was a free show as part of the Pop Up Charleston series and I’d never listened to a single song from them beforehand. There’s no official word on that just yet, but first Walker’s back with something else: A live album he recorded with the Japanese psych-voyagers Kikagaku Moyo. The first and only time I’d seen this Athens-based group perform live was wedged between the graffiti’d brick walls of Kevsco Alley in Charleston. Thanks to his customarily self-deprecating preview of “solid B+ material, like the most B+ record I’ve ever heard,” we ranked it amongst our most anticipated releases of the year. Ryley Walker’s already been promising a new album in 2021.
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