Kieran Hebden + William Tyler - Spider Ballad

What this video is

Released in 2025 as the lead single from the debut collaborative album '41 Longfield Street Late '80s' (Eat Your Own Ears Recordings / Temporary Residence Ltd), 'Spider Ballad' crystallizes a decade-long friendship between UK electronic producer Kieran Hebden — known globally as Four Tet — and Nashville-based cosmic country guitarist William Tyler. Their shared formative affinity for '80s American country and folk…

Why it matters

A landmark document of trans-Atlantic genre hybridity in mid-2020s experimental music, 'Spider Ballad' fuses IDM's textural rigor with American cosmic country primitivism. Hebden's use of sampled guitar as rhythmic substrate — dissolving the boundary between acoustic instrument and electronic…