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Walker’s version of McComb’s “Robin Egg Blue” is fairly faithful to the original, but he approaches it from a less poppy place than McCombs, turning into a delicately, skipping acoustic ballad.

In Walker’s acoustic instrumental cover of that album’s lynchpin track “Heavy Water/I’d Rather Be Sleeping,” his bright, beautiful playing floods the already gorgeously emotive and pretty perfect song with an undeniably bright and beautiful light.Ĭass McCombs is an underrated and outrageously gifted songwriter, and all nine of his studio LP’s are worth exploring and indulging in.

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Her 2008 album Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill remains a stunner, full of spare, hypnotic dreampop. Describing her music as transportive almost undersells it. Hearing Grouper aka Liz Harris for the first time can be a bit of a spiritual experience. In fact if you aren’t, Walker’s engaging versions of these tracks might inspire you to check out the originals (in which case you are in for a treat). On his new cover EP, titled, yes, covers, his slips his beautifully optimistic style onto tracks by Grouper, Cass McCombs, Isotope 217 and Amen Dunes. You don’t need to be familiar with the originals here to appreciate the EP’s sweet, embraceable sound.

But the ideal way to describe his sound requires that we get flowery and overly sentimental for a second: He infuses such an undeniable brightness into whatever he plays that he quite literally sounds like the sun peaking through the trees on a quiet street in the summertime. Which is to say he’s jazzy, folky, eccentric and joyfully unpredictable. The most basic, clinical way to describe singer-songwriter-guitarist Ryley Walker’s signature sound would be to liken him to legends like Bert Jansch, John Martyn or Michael Hedges.