NPR: "NPR Music's 27 Favorite Songs Of 2021 (So Far)"

"NPR Music's 27 Favorite Songs Of 2021 (So Far)"
NPR Music
June 30, 2021

Ryley Walker, "Rang Dizzy"

Two years after kicking addiction to the curb, singer, songwriter and guitarist Ryley Walker has achieved fever-pitch productivity, documenting pellucid songs, psychedelic jams and freewheeling improvisations on his Husky Pants label. Course in Fable, issued in April, weds his customarily airy tunesmithing with gently abstruse lyrics and prog-infused arrangements. "Rang Dizzy" is lush and brusque, a waking dream with implicit edge: When Walker ends each chorus with, "F*** me, I'm alive," his wonder feels weighty.—Steve Smith