Ty Segall has maintained an inexhaustible release schedule for nearly two decades now, and he’s just announced yet another addition to his behemoth catalog with “Chrome”, his 18th solo studio album. Following last year’s detour into nostalgic pop-rock on “Possession”, Segall’s latest is billed as one of the garage-psych destroyer’s heaviest records yet, and that comes through on the ripping lead single “Black Paint.”
The album is out on Aug. 28th via Drag City, and just for kicks he’ll also drop a new EP, “Love Fuzzz“, on the same day.
Where Segall performed, recorded and mixed “Possession” alone, he flipped the script for “Chrome”, enlisting his tried and true touring band of Mikal Cronin, Emmett Kelly, Ben Boye and Evan Burrows and Bitchin’ Bajas’ Cooper Crain to track the album live. Wand drummer Burrows is credited for some songwriting apart from the full-band tracks, alongside other returning collaborators Matt Yoka and Ty’s wife Denée.
On “Black Paint,” Segall submerges the bright melodies of his last dispatch in thick, dark riffs. In keeping with the meticulous production standard that he’s sharpened since last year with work for White Fence, Annabelle Chairlegs and Upchuck, every screech and sputter in the flood of distortion hits hard. The same head-banding sessions gave rise to the “Love Fuzzz” EP, which includes a slowed stoner metal take on the song of the same name from 2012’s “Twins” and “My Pet Guru,” billed as “hypnotic art psych fried-kraut air.”
Ty Segall is back with the whole band on board, and their rocksplosion is too vast for just one album! That’s why there’s a full-length called “Chrome” LP AND an EP called “Love Fuzzz” dropping at the same instant! They hail from oppositional planes from the rock and roll spectrum – one a spiffy pop-and-punk rock album and the other, a slo-mo, doom ‘n dirge EP. If tend toward fragility, focus on which side of the universe you want rocking your world, but if you’re ready to roll with your rock, have we got a bundle for you! “Chrome” and “Love Fuzzz” united as one! Before you tie one on, you might want both Ty’s in hand. Together they’ll take you through a dark night of the soul you’ll never forget.
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