When we last caught up with guitarist William Tyler, it was to commemorate Secret Stratosphere, the ripping live record he'd made with his band of compatriots, The Impossible Truth. But his new single "Flight Final" finds Tyler returning to—and moreover, expanding on—the haunted radiophonic tones of his 2020 EP New Vanitas. There's a stark menace to the song's opening, before a light on the horizon cracks—like that big old moon emerging from behind a shadowy cloud—in the form of a sparkly synth reverie and Tyler's arcing waves of electric guitar . . .
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