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41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s

Kieran Hebden and William Tyler

41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s

Debut full-length collaboration between Kieran Hebden (Four Tet ) and William Tyler recorded in Los Angles and Nashville

ADM rating[?]

7.5

Label
Eat Your Own Ears
UK Release date
19/09/2025
US Release date
19/09/2025
  1. 8.0 |   All Music

    41 Longfield Street Late '80s is part of the ambient Americana phenomenon, but instead of finding comfort in the wide-open space of the country, the album looks to the future through distorted memories of the past
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  2. 8.0 |   The Line Of Best Fit

    It’s ultimately futile to fight the album’s considerable charms, culminating in “When It Rains”, a low-lit, minimalist beauty that eventually curdles into a storm of fiercely shrieking guitar feedback and electronic dissonance
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  3. 8.0 |   Clash

    This isn’t a record to absorb quickly – provide yourself with time to seek out its tributaries, to participate in its creative conversations. An unusual, beguiling collaboration, you hope it’s the first chapter in this duet, and not the last
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  4. 8.0 |   Mojo

    A low-key exploration of how delicate melodies, processed noise and the occasional beat can intertwine, When It Rains drifting artfully to uncompromised skronk. Print edition only

  5. 8.0 |   Uncut

    "Timber" is almost all Tyler, "Spider Ballad" a lowkey club throbber, all of it only made possible by this unexpected partnership. Print edition only

  6. 8.0 |   God Is In The TV

    At forty minutes long this is an album which does not overstay its welcome, but works its way into your heart, and I hope that both parties will collaborate in the future on the evidence within
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  7. 8.0 |   The Quietus

    Perhaps the main strength of 41 Longfield Street Late ‘80s is that these songs rarely turn out to be what you thought they might be, which is a fairly on the nose metaphor for life itself – especially viewed 35 years later through the distorted prism of the 2020s
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  8. 7.7 |   Pitchfork

    Four Tet teams up with the American avant-folk guitarist on a radiant, joyfully surprising album that folds together country, ambient, minimal techno, psychedelia, and more
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  9. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Lyle Lovett meets brain-scouring distortion on the electronic musician’s surprisingly un-nostalgic collaboration with former Lambchop guitarist Tyler
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