Ty Segall releases a lot of albums but his upcoming “Possession” could have much wider appeal.
The first single from the album is “Fantastic Tomb,” which shows off the ambition and tunefulness of “Possession”, not to mention Cronin’s sax arrangements. This is a real step up for Ty and you can listen below.
Ty Segall has announced a new album, “Possession“, which will be out May 30th via Drag City. This is his 16th solo album and Ty made it at his own Harmonizer studio, producing it himself. Mikal Cronin provided string and horn arrangements (he also plays sax), and lyrics were co-written with filmmaker and longtime associate Matt Yoka.
So for “Possession”, Ty’s 16th album, he strikes up the orchestra in his head with an abiding view of some quintessentially American stories, a quest channelled into ten non-stop bangers.
A year and a half removed from the trenchant identity opus of his “Three Bells”
song cycle, Ty’s beamed himself out from deep within psychic interiors. Hitting the
trail beneath the big skies of our good ol’ frontier empire, he’s on the hunt for new horizons—and it’s frankly astonishing to hear, at this mature point in his discography, the discovery of invigorated new sonics around every bend. That’s simply what Ty does with his music. Here, compulsive rhythm arrangements are joined in battle by sweeping movements of strings and horns that further the charge righteously.
One of the keys to this new music involved tapping an old friend and collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka, to write with him. As a non-musician, Matt’s language sense is different from the one Ty’s amassed as a player of music. With the trust they’ve developed over the years—brainstorming the visual worlds of “Goodbye Bread”, “Manipulator”, “Emotional Mugger”, and plenty more—they throw the conceptual ball back and forth to translate general vibes and feels into wicked lyric imagery, each acting as writer and editor in the process. Through these lyric sets, Ty found new scansion and different shapes suggesting the qualities of the songs, and of an overall arrangement sense. That’s where the other keys came in—piano keys! Ty’s been woodshedding on the 88s, the 76s and/or the 61s; they add new outlines and shadings to the music, fortifying his fantastic plastic vision left and right. Rife with singing guitar leads and Wizzardian brass n’ reeds lustily riffin’ on the banks of Ty’s harmony vocal choir,
“Fantastic Tomb” is from the Ty Segall album “Possession“, out on LP/CD/CS from Drag City on May 30th, 2025.
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