Freedom's Goblin's a sprawling, brilliant double album that takes Segall's dalliances with glam and squealing strangeness, marries them to his natural talents for hooksome fuzz, adds some killer rock horns, and blossoms into a bewildering opus.
After reaching the outer limits of what blasted guitar rock could accomplish, Ty Segall seemed lost. But last year's self-titled album was a centering ritual and the path opened up. Sweet 60's shimmer, Exile swagger, flashes of outright power pop (5 Ft Tall!) and more - none of the 19 songs sound the same. It harkens back to those adventurous albums from 90's bands trying to find space outside their sound: Tiny Music, Vitalogy, In It For the Money, Mellon Collie. Segall takes solo credit on this one, but there's a band on the cover and a band's worth of ideas on the record.
And then there's those sweet little callbacks. A hollowed-out third version of Talkin (may he keep making these forever) shows Segall hasn't lost his Diddy Wah Diddy. A 12 minute track closes things out, a pair of Cowgirl in the Sand guitars stretching Sleeper's title track into glitched out disintegration.
Ty's early stuff is legend, and he's finally showing us how much more he's capable of 4.5/5
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