TYLER  NAIL

In early 2025 I released a collection of songs called Family . These songs came from many different chapters of my life. Some were over a decade old, some were brand new. But they were unified by an underlying theme, all sharing some connection to the story of my heritage, my upbringing, and my family. I was in New England – my current home that is a world apart from the North Carolina hills where I grew up. I was looking through old photos and found these amazing pictures of

I'm an avid journaler. I've kept some sort of journal since I was in middle school, and I almost always have it on me. I love journals because they document the whole process. Not just the actual songwriting, but the brainstorming, the doodles, the big ideas, the dreams, the failures, the weird thoughts, and the intentions. It's a process of figuring things out, usually in an ugly or raw way, until the way finally leads to something more beautiful. And this love of the proces

A song about family Photo by Cory Wood I had been laid off from my job and was spending a lot of time at home. I had the first line of the song and the chorus written but I wasn't sure where else to take the song. At this time in my life, I felt keenly in touch with my mortality, as it felt like the evidence of mortality was everywhere. People were unwell. Some were dying. And suddenly my place in the lineage felt more important. I wondered how to measure myself against it.

This collection of songs could have gone by a few different names. But I think Devil captures it the best. This time period in my life started as one thing and resulted in something entirely different. There are a handful of songs that I wrote and even recorded that I decided to cut from this project because they didn't serve that eventual result. Cutting songs is something I've rarely ever done, but I came to see the benefit of it for this project. This album picks up where

Intro To Life Lessons Throughout 2015 and 2016 a strange combination of changes took place in my life. Amidst them, a picture formed in my mind. It was not something I understood, and it was unlike other artistic pictures (or visions) I've had in the past. This led to my spending about two years writing, demoing, and developing these songs, until finally turning them into this double album. I'm not really sure what I was trying to accomplish or say. I'm as curious about it

There are many selves we can experience throughout a single lifetime. There are those through which we learn, those through which we teach, those through which we suffer, and those through which we can be truly alive. Each identity we act out is a part of a constant war between our individualism and authority. Authority is recognized through the exchange of dominance and submission. The expression of dominance by a group or tribe we “belong to” is often in explicit oppositio