Ty Segall: The hill (Single, 2012)

Un nuevo sencillo de Ty Segall anunciador de su nuevo material, de inminente aparición este próximo otoño. Sencillo apabullante, con sonidos de guitarras ásperas y distorsionadas, coros de voces femeninas a capella y todos los ingredientes del Punk-Pop versión California.

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Thee Oh Sees/Ty Segall: Crushed grass/Happy creeps (Split Single, 2011)

 

Si a mí me llegan a decir cuando me casé que el crucero de mi viaje de novios sería a bordo de un barco en el que tocaran Thee Oh Sees y Ty Segall evidentemente, me lo hubiera pensado todavía menos de lo que me pensé entonces. Porque parece ser que existen unos promotores que han ideado un viaje Miami-Bahamas en el que tocarán bandas del calibre de las mencionadas, Vivian Girls, The Black Lips, Surfer Blood, Strange Boys o Turbo Fruits. Impresionante la gozada que puede ser disfrutar de tus vacaciones con bandas como éstas tocando todas las noches. El primer viaje está programado para finales de Febrero. Una avezada discográfica ha editado este single compartido (se está imponiendo esta moda últimamente) entre Thee Oh Sees y Ty Segall. Los temas son evidentemente, incendiarios cortes del mejor Rock de Garaje a baja intensidad. Súper recomendable. Yeah!!

Thee Oh Sees/Ty Segall – Crushed grass/Happy creeps (Split Single, 2011)

“By now you have more than likely caught wind of the Bruise Cruise, the hipster-tinged Mayercraft conceived by former San Francisco resident and Panache Booking founder Michelle Cable. Featuring live sets from some of the best in the garage rock scene – The Black Lips, Vivian Girls, Surfer Blood, Turbo Fruits and much more – the party ship is scheduled to sail from Miami to the Bahamas and back over three days in late February. In honor of the inaugural voyage, Memphis-based tastemakers Goner Records today announced the release of a limited edition split 7″ featuring none other than Bruise Cruise performers and San Francisco garage rock favorites Ty Segall and Thee Oh Sees. We expect the single run print to go fast, so be sure to snag it while you still have a chance. And for the diehards, Bruise Cruise passes can still be had for $500 + fees, commemorative 7″ included. Hundreds of drunk garage rock fanatics mixed with 2,000 shuffle board playing family vacationers — what could go wrong!” (thefeast.com)

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Ty Segall: Melted (2010)

 

Uno de los grandes redescubrimientos de este 2010 ha sido el nuevo resurgir del Lo-Fi. Los sonidos “surgidos” a comienzos de los noventa principalmente en los Usa (Sebadoh, Guided by Voices, Pavement…) han visto como gentes como Dum Dum Girls o Harlem vuelven a utilizar estos métodos de grabación en poquísimas tomas y añaden ese plus de intensidad y frescura a sus álbumes. Ty Segall es otro de los ejemplos que podemos encontrar en este 2010. Iniciado su proyecto como un one band man, en la actualidad con este tercer disco se hace acompañar de una banda más o menos estable, ha aligerado algo su sonido eliminando algo de crudeza, y nos presenta este Melted (2010), un álbum donde sus principios aparecen inalterables, utilizando el Lo-Fi como punto de partida para su álbum. Un disco breve, más o menos media hora y de gran intensidad y ejecutado desde el comienzo con furia (Finger) y con los presupuestos Lo-Fi siempre presentes (Caesar). La electricidad es también protagonista en temas como Girlfriend, Sad Fuzz o Melted. Un disco creado con una buena dosis de “locura” pero con no menos dosis de fuerza creativa y de intensidad.

Ty Segall – Melted (2010)

“San Fran garage-punker (and former one man bander) Ty Segall pens crackling classic-sounding rock’n'roll tunes about as lean and economical as they come, pushing his rangy shoutalong hooks so far forward there’s rarely room for pesky little details like verses. Although he’s thrown quite a few more colors into his instrumental palette in recent years, he’s still mostly working way out in the red, leaving nuance to others. Melted, his latest, boasts a 30-minute runtime that feels closer to 15. Segall gets in, gets out, and gets it done nearly every time.
Melted kicks off with quite the 1-2-3-4 punch: the swarming “Finger”, the strummy “Caesar”, the bopalong “Girlfriend”, the two-faced “Sad Fuzz”. Each tune spends a little time getting situated then settles into a wide-eyed amphetamine groove, levels well blown out, Segall’s slack, bratty howl smeared liberally over top. “Girlfriend” in particular feels snappy and effortless. Segall’s not taking much time figuring out how to beef up his sound, and while just about everything’s bathed in the same warm haze and power trio crackle, he manages to jam the odd nooks and crannies of these straightaway songs with a little squiggly sci-fi guitar, barrelhouse piano, recorder, even the odd vocal collage. Segall’s made some fine music in the past, but it’s always felt a little hit-or-miss on an LP level, with hooks buried by freneticism and too little emphasis on his natural talent as a singer. Melted seems in some ways like his first proper record– he’s in control of every element of his sound on these first four rippers.
Melted gets a little soft in the middle, its title track lost in a sea of haze, “Mike D’s Coke” coming off almost like a third-rate Ariel Pink number. The tracks exhibit a little more range than his Buddy Holly/early Kinks/Ramones triangulation, but they don’t hit as hard, slowing the record’s momentum. But things pick up rather nicely from “Imaginary Person” on out, riding a wave of sweaty insistence on through to the all-too-hasty end. “Imaginary” is a beast, clattering for a spell before breaking into a surfy chug. “My Sunshine” bakes and “Bees” floats by, but it’s the muddy blues of “Mrs.” that really leaves its mark, a murder ballad in the “Hey Joe” mold that Segall slows down just long enough to completely kill.
You’re not going to hear many rock records that’ll kick you square in the pants quite like this one this year, provided Segall doesn’t up and crank another one out by December; the kid’s got heart, brains, and quite an ear for a hook, and he throws himself body and soul into these tunes. Segall makes quite an impression in half an hour’s time, and Melted’s the best foot he’s put forward yet. It still seems like his best records are ahead of him, like he’s still got a couple of things to nail, but as it stands, Melted could charm the sweat out of anybody” (pitchfork.com)

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