I've said it before, but Ty Segall is the face of rock right now, dragging garage rock revival into hellish new places it never wanted to go, giving it sardonic post-punk swagger and a scuzzy modern edge, his output has been impossibly diverse and downright solid given its volume.
Speaking of volume, things are still loud, with that signature colossal buzz bass and frantic fill-filled drums riding under flayed guitars playing the best scum-punk hooks this side of Raw Power.
Listen to They Told Me Too and you'll hear all you need to know, that unstoppable, galloping beat, that shitkicking bass riff, that soaring guitar, sounding written and recorded in about seven minutes and blasted onto the world as a homemade grenade. Or Who Are You, riffing on Are You Gonna Go My Way, and by extension You Really Got Me, and Are You Going to Be My Girl, and by extension Lust for Life, and by extension Motown, and by extension probably half dozen other songs, running them into each other into something offkilter and uncanny, whipping inspirations beyond their limits.
We've got ourselves a modern-day Robert Pollard here folks, but one who's interested in a decidedly modern approach to appropriate-and-wrench songwriting, one who's interested fucking up the production in altogether different ways, one who's got his song-spitting chaingun pointed in a far darker direction. Strap in, goin' down 4.5/5
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