William Tyler Releases Atmospheric ‘Anima Hotel’ Single
The Jungian track appears on the guitarist’s forthcoming album, Time Indefinite.
By Andy Kahn Apr 2, 2025 • 1:05 pm PDT
Photo by Angelina Castillo
On April 25, William Tyler will issue his first solo album in six years, Time Indefinite, via the Psychic Hotline label. Previewing the upcoming LP, the Nashville-based guitarist shared the atmospheric new single, “Anima Hotel.”
Time Indefinite, whose title and inspiration came from the 1993 Ross McElwee-directed documentary film of the same name, was recorded by Tyler with his longtime collaborator Jake Davis.
The project started when the COVID pandemic caused Tyler to move from Los Angeles back to his native Nashville, leaving most of his possessions – including his record collection – in L.A. He soon came into possession of an old tape machine while cleaning out his late grandpa’s office in Jackson, Mississippi, and began recording loops on the vintage gear.
Some loops were used by Tyler on his collaboration with Four Tet’s Kieran Hebden, 2023’s Darkness, Darkness/No Services, while others – along with ideas recorded to his phone – were crafted by Tyler and Davis into pieces on Time Indefinite. Rather than clean the recordings up, the pair “embrace[d] the hiss and wobble” the technology provided.
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Tyler, who will tour the United States in May, shared the below statement with the single, “Anima Hotel”:
“Carl Jung used the term anima to refer to the unconscious divine feminine within the man. So often in romantic love we are seeking both the magical other and if anything, the mirror to align with the different parts of our psyche that we project.
“I imagine this as kind of like a love song I wrote to different people, all of us having to stay at one of those middle-of-nowhere airport motels awaiting a flight to be rescheduled.”
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