• 1.1. country of illusion
  • 1.2. the geography of nowhere
  • 1.3. cadillac desert
  • 1.4. we can't go home again
  • 2.1. a portrait of sarah
  • 2.2. hotel catatonia
  • 2.3. the last residents of westfall
  • 2.4. the world set free

tyler, william

impossible truth

IMPOSSIBLE TRUTH

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IMPOSSIBLE TRUTH

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,Impossible Truth" was born on tour as William Tyler was reading two books with an odd kinship while on long and lonely Midwestern drives: Barney Hoskyns' Hotel California and Mike Davis' The Ecology of Fear. Both center on the promise and psychosis of southern California, albeit from very different angles: Hoskyns tackles the naïve and narcissistic Laurel Canyon scene of the early seventies, while renowned social scientist Davis deals with the history of the destruction of Los Angeles, both in real and imagined disasters. The synchronistic tackling of these tomes inspired Tyler to compose a story rooted in apocalyptic expectation and bittersweet nostalgia. Or as Tyler puts it, this is "my '70s singer-songwriter record; it just doesn't have any ... read more