Stephen Francis Von Till Jr. is an American musician, best known as the guitarist of the metal band Neurosis, in which he also shared lead vocals with former member Scott Kelly.
[2] Von Till's solo music as a singer songwriter has been described as a hybrid of "haunting"[3] folk songs,[4] rural psychedelia and expansive gothic Americana full of melancholic beauty.
These songs are often built around sparse arrangements, the centerpiece of which is his distinctive solemn weathered voice and minimal acoustic guitar stylings.
In many ways a catch all for his other musical interests and influences, distilling his love for home recorded psychedelia,[5] ambient, folk, lo-fi, krautrock, fuzz guitars, analog delays, and vintage synthesizers into a cohesive meditative body of work.
Borrowing the concept from dub music of using the recording studio as an instrument, Von Till often considers the mixes themselves as the performance where he is able to break down, manipulate, and rebuild the tracks into new forms.