Tyler Mann doesn’t have much experience under his belt. At only fifteen years of age he picked up a guitar about a year ago and already released an album entitled Music From The Metro. I remember being in a very similar situation to Mann about twenty-three years ago. I got obsessed with guitar and would just experiment. Back then you didn’t have the luxury of a DAW. I recorded to tape but still remember some of those tapes sounding like Music From The Metro. The songs on Music From The Metro were done in one take and more or less just a guitar with some rare exceptions.
On his Bandcamp page he states that “the post-apocalyptic metro is a cold, cruel place.” That I think is the environment he is trying to create with his guitar. On the opener “The Great Fall (Zergatik da hau)” you get a couple of dissonant, ominous two or three note repetition and a good amount of reverb. “Power Station” contains almost random fluctuations of sounds that seemed to be conjured from his guitar. At points it seems as if he is tuning his guitar. “The Acoustic Defense Against The Thinny” contains slightly distorted notes and chords while “Robots” is not much more than some fiddling around on the guitar. “Blunt Force Trauma” and “Metro Punk” utilize distortion to some degree while “Do Not Touch” seems to be the most ethereal sounding in the batch. “Before” is another ambient track while “A Last Moment” contains a couple of spoken words. If Mann has a passion for this type of music I encourage him to go back to the beginning. He is trying for immersion and Brian Eno was the original master. Ambient 1: Music for Airports is a good starting point but The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid by Stars of the Lid and Playthroughs by Keith Fullerton Whitman are also some of the most amazing work I have heard that surrounds you in an environment. Mann is just getting started and I like that he is thinking in an off-kilter way. He still has a long way to go but I encourage him to keep exploring the landscapes of sounds with a diverse palette of tones and textures.
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