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New EP from Ty Segall
Indie | Wednesday 10th October 2012 | Jacob
Yesterday saw the release of the 6th studio album from Segall, entitled Twins.
This is already the third album this year from an artist that could surely lay a claim to the title of ‘Hardest Working Act in Garage Rock’ if such an accolade existed. Earlier this year he laid out his ambitions for the project in an interview with Exclaim! “I want to do a total glam Stooges-meets-Hawkwind or Sabbath, something like that. I think that would be super fun. I want to throw people off. I want to make a really heavy record: evil, evil space rock.”
Opening track ‘Thank God For Sinners’ proudly wears the aforementioned influences on its sleeve, with a heavy, clanging riff drenched in Segall’s trademark fuzz and feedback. It’s gloriously noisy stuff, but not without finesse. One of the album’s stand-out songs ‘The Hill’ walks a tightrope, seamlessly blending psychedelic, sixties styled vocals and melody with a crushingly heavy groove.
It’s this cocktail of influences, and the virtuosity with which they are melted into one another, that makes this album such a raging success. And it’s not that we haven’t heard anything like this before before - garage rock is a pretty crowded genre – it’s just that we’ve never heard it done so well, so loud or with such passion.
By Jacob Alexander Guberg
