Time Indefinite (album)

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Time Indefinite
William Tyler - Time Indefinite.jpg
Studio album by
William Tyler
ReleasedApril 25, 2025 (2025-04-25)
Studio
  • Huge Planet, Nashville, Tennessee
  • Los Angeles
Length48:46
Label Psychic Hotline
Producer
  • Jake Davis
  • Alex Somers
William Tyler chronology
Future Myths
(2024)		Time Indefinite
(2025)

Time Indefinite is the seventh studio album by American musician and guitarist William Tyler. [1] It was released on April 25, 2025, by Psychic Hotline. [2]

Contents

Background

Time Definite is the first solo album by Tyler since his 2019 project, Goes West . [3] It was recorded in Huge Planet Studio in Nashville and Los Angeles, and produced and engineered by Jake Davis and Alex Somers. The title is derived from the autobiographical 1993 documentary film, Time Indefinite , directed by Ross McElwee. [4]

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 87/100 [5]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar half.svg [2]
Financial Times Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [6]
The Line of Best Fit 9/10 [7]
Mojo Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [8]
Paste 8.5/10 [9]
Pitchfork 8.0/10 [10]
PopMatters 8/10 [11]
Record Collector Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svg [12]
Under the Radar 8/10 [13]
Uncut 9/10 [14]

AllMusic rated the album 4.5 out of five and called it "another career highlight that pushes Tyler boldly into the future". [2] The Line of Best Fit assigned it a rating of nine out of ten, stating "With Time Indefinite, William Tyler offers a fresh and uniquely compelling way to affirm that it's OK not to be OK: these are humbly majestic anthems for our anxious age." [7] The Guardian noted about the album, "the few clear guitar refrains on Time Indefinite chime with nursery-rhyme simplicity," [4] while the Financial Times described it as "embedded in computerised textures and results from a mid-life sense of crisis." [6]

Track listing

Time Indefinite track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Cabin Six"8:14
2."Concern"5:29
3."Star of Hope"5:32
4."Howling at the Second Moon"3:52
5."A Dream, a Flood"3:03
6."Anima Motel"5:02
7."Electric Lake"3:46
8."Hardest Land to Harvest"7:51
9."Held"5:57
Total length:48:46

Personnel

Credits adapted from the album's liner notes. [15]

Charts

Chart performance for Time Indefinite
Chart (2025)Peak
position
UK Album Downloads (OCC) [16] 64

References

  1. ↑ Pearis, Bill (February 12, 2025). "William Tyler announces new album and live events". BrooklynVegan . Retrieved April 26, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 Monger, Timothy. "Time Indefinite – William Tyler". AllMusic . Retrieved April 26, 2025.
  3. ↑ Bloom, Madison (February 12, 2025). "William Tyler Announces New Album Time Indefinite, Shares New Songs". Pitchfork . Retrieved April 26, 2025.
  4. 1 2 Snapes, Laura (March 3, 2025). "'I don't want to retreat any more': guitarist William Tyler on grief, alcoholism and his claustrophobic new album". The Guardian . ISSN   0261-3077 . Retrieved April 26, 2025.
  5. ↑ "Reviews for Time Indefinite by William Tyler". Metacritic . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  6. 1 2 Hunter-Tilney, Ludovic (April 26, 2025). "William Tyler: Time Indefinite album review — off-kilter yet immersive". Financial Times . Retrieved April 26, 2025.
  7. 1 2 Oinonen, Janne (April 23, 2025). "William Tyler: Time Indefinite review – ok certainty". The Line of Best Fit . Retrieved April 26, 2025.
  8. ↑ Somehow, he and producer Jake Davis have conjured an utterly compelling account of Tyler's lurching mental health. [Jun 2025, p.87]
  9. ↑ Mitchell, Matt (May 5, 2025). "William Tyler is Spectral and Adrift on Time Indefinite". Paste . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  10. ↑ Felsenthal, Daniel (April 30, 2025). "Time Indefinite - William Tyler". Pitchfork . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  11. ↑ Laird, Christopher (May 15, 2025). "William Tyler's Excellent New LP Isn't What You Might Expect". PopMatters . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  12. ↑ Atkins, Jamie (March 22, 2025). "Record Collector April 2025". Record Collector . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  13. ↑ Dransfield, Scotty (July 10, 2025). "William Tyler - Time Indefinite". Under the Radar . Retrieved October 11, 2025.
  14. ↑ One of the most compelling albums Tyler has made. .... Time Indefinite seems to stare into the heart of what the country is tight now, in all its fragmented, polarised turmoil; the state of the nation in perfect sync with Tyler's own troubled state of mind. [May 2025, p.26]
  15. ↑ Time Indefinite (Media notes). William Tyler. Psychic Hotline. April 25, 2025.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  16. ↑ "Official Album Downloads Chart Top 100". Official Charts Company. Retrieved May 3, 2025.
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