Dylan Aycock - No New Summers

No New Summers marks Dylan Aycock’s first full-length release under his own name in nearly a decade. Rooted in solo guitar traditions but stretching far beyond them, the album blends American Primitive, country, folk, ambient, and avant-garde influences into a sound both intimate and expansive. These are instrumentals with weight—evocative, transportive, and carefully shaped.

The title track captures the album’s reflective core. “As you get older, you have fewer new experiences,” Aycock writes. “The excitement for summer fades. You end up nostalgic for something that can only happen once.” That tension—between presence and memory, vitality and reflection—runs through the album like a current.

Byron Coley calls it “transportational music of the highest order,” and it’s true: No New Summers feels like wandering through familiar landscapes that have quietly changed shape. Aycock’s playing is precise but never rigid, capturing stillness without stasis. It's a record of restraint, mood, and deep listening.