Next month sees the release of the highly-anticipated new solo album from American guitarist and experimental musician Dylan Golden Aycock. No New Summers, his first solo release in eight years, will be co-released on Feeding Tube and Worried Songs on 21st March 2025.
To mark the announcement, he has released a video for the title track and lead single, which features fellow sonic explorer Hayden Pedigo chilling in the sun, the perfect reflection of the album cover featuring the photography of Cody M Lane, which Dylan talks about below.
“I made the title track a couple years ago at the beginning of summer. I was thinking about how as you get older you have fewer new experiences. That feeling of excitement for summer fades, after it used to be such a big deal as a kid. Those experiences can only be new and vibrant once. The rest of your life can be spent in nostalgia for them. It’s a sad thought and maybe not true for everyone, but I suspect it is for most. The album is a sort of ode to that Stand by Me vibe of childhood. Which’s a big part of why Cody M Lane’s photograph of the kid skateboarding in cowboy boots hit me so hard. That’s a thing I’ve seen multiple times here in Oklahoma over the years and it cracks me up, but is also just a perfect photo in my opinion. All of his photography really captures my latchkey childhood — wandering around the streets all day with friends, not a care in the world.”
In addition to running the excellent Scissor Tail Records, Dylan released Two Improvisations last year, a collaboration with Indian tabla and sitar player Joshua Massad. In Glenn Kimpton’s words, it’s absolutely fascinating music that is as mercurial as it is rhythmic and steady. Imagine Ry Cooder and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt’s A Meeting by the River with the experimental knob turned right up and you’ll get close. Spellbinding. Read the full review here.
We’re looking forward to this new album, especially after Two Improvisations featured in Glenn’s Top 10 Albums of 2024 and KLOF’s 100 Albums of the Year.
Pre-Order No New Summers (21st March 2025)
Feeding Tube (US – Vinyl + Digital): https://feedingtuberecords.bandcamp.com/album/no-new-summers
Worried Songs (UK – Vinyl/Digital): https://worriedsongs.bandcamp.com/album/no-new-summers