releasing August 2022 on tape/digital via Repeating Cloud
UpperNarrows is the solo recording project of Portland, Maine-based songwriter and producer Tyler Jackson. Building songs around programmed beats and synths,UpperNarrows is a continuation of Jackson’s decade-plus long songwriting efforts in indie rock outfits Foam Castles and Golden Rules the Thumb.
Over the Prairie (2025)—the follow-up EP to the full-length While We’re Warm (2023), also released by Maine label Repeating Cloud—expands the project’s sonic terrain with spaced out Krautrock soundscapes, off-kilter electric piano-driven pop, and acid house drum loops.
By balancing classic pop hooks with trance-like beats, impressionistic lyrics, and eerie electronic distortions, Jackson is able to craft “a deep and spacey sound…[a] digital soundscape with a very human emotion, resulting in something as immersive as it is affirming” (Various Small Flames, 2023).
Tyler Jackson