[Cover photo credit to Jason O’Neil]

Ty Walker and the Humanoids have released their new Country-inflected album, Home on the Strange. The project has a unique mythology that postulates that…

…far out in the void, beyond everything we humans know and love, there lies The Moosh: a luminous deity who controls the nine universes within the multiverse, each one stretching from its sparkling center like a wide-reaching tentacle of a squid. One such tentacle, the sixth to be exact, has begun to decay. It is in this atrophied limb that we find our planet, a speck of life within a declining universe plagued by ‘fractured frequencies’ and want for a sonic remedy called the ‘galactic twang’. Herein lies the origin of Ty Walker and The Humanoids, a band that has made it its mission to save us all, and they’re going to do it with a little thing called country music.

Though Ty is the principal songwriter and front person of the group, the title of band leader must also be shared with Glarzak, “a native to the planet Glarphonia, home of the extra-terrestrial species The Humanoids.”

It took some time for the Humanoids to master the foreign art of Country music. The fruit of this labor is their album Home on the Strange, a “journey through Ty Walker’s bizarre existence as a galactic Country-crusader.”