Ryley Walker is back with a new label and his first new music in five years.Today, the singer-songwriter-guitar announced his signing to AD 93 with a new song, “Carrier,” his first release since the 2021 album Course in Fable.
Check the track, and the Kendra Calhoun-directed video it’s paired with, below.Walker described “Carrier” in press materials as a “clock-out jam,” a song he chipped away at after long shifts at his service industry gig in New York.“I was thinking of people in my hometown of Rockford, Illinois.
Wearing SpongeBob pajama pants to a funeral-type heads.I imagined them screaming behind the wheel of a salvage-title Honda Civic with a lift kit,” he says.
“They inspire me every day.”Since dropping Course in Fable, Walker has kept busy working with other artists.He’s played guitar for james K and Joanne Robertson, and has also collaborated with Charles Rumback, Steve Gunn, Chris Corsano, David Grubb, and more....