Ryley Walker signs to AD 93 and returns with new song, "Carrier"

"Carrier" is Walker's first new music since his 2021 album Course In Fable, which sees the artist combine folk and art rock in his sixth full-length release. The new track introduces a new sound for Walker, inspired by influential computer musicians who floated around the noise underground scene throughout his early career. Speaking about the single, Walker says: “‘Carrier’ is a simple tune. Just digital distortion in PPOOLL/Max/MSP and a pitched-down loop of a failed guitar demo from my phone. Ditched years earlier. Totally broken, but refried and refurbished. I chipped away at it in my apartment downtown NYC after closing shifts at my service-industry gig. Clock-out jams. Great period of exhaustion. Despite how brutal it sounds, it truly felt like the easier, softer way of making a tune." "I was thinking of people in my hometown of Rockford, Illinois," Walker continues. "Wearing SpongeBob pyjama pants to a funeral-type heads. I imagined them screaming behind the wheel of a salvage-title Honda Civic with a lift kit. They inspire me every day. I thought of Loren Connors. Thought of Kevin Drumm. Thought of Caspar Brötzmann. Smoked cigs inside.”