![]() The change-jingling saunter of a tempo at which most of the album runs brings Segall in line with the often noisier onetime bandmates Sic Alps. The most notable uniting factor between these bands - The Fresh & Onlys, Sonny & The Sunsets, and others in their vicinity - is not a quantifiable one it’s a loose, tape-deck physicality, a textural sense of place. ![]() Some songs even deal with locality lyrically: “California Commercial” sends up the continuing American fantasy of the West Coast as destination, while “Comfortable Home” questions a lover’s desire for a domestic living situation ( “She says she wants to buy a couch/ I said why do we have to buy the couch?”), but it’s a nauseated warmth about his sound that really “places” it. Ty Segall culls some some of his scene’s most appealing aspects and affixes them to unusually-written, melodically appealing songs in essence, he’s an ideal ambassador for his Bay Area milieu. Improving with every subsequent release, he’s an ascendant non-luddite, non-backtracking garage figurehead for an age of increasing unreality, a mouthpiece of the sempiternal primal garage yelp.Key Tracks: “Alta”, “Cry Cry Cry”, “And, Goodnight” The yearly release of Ty Segall has come upon us once again with Freedom’s Goblin, an album surprisingly longer than what is usually expected from his usual. The garage-psychedelic-fuzz rock is here and longer than ever before, so what is there to complain about? His 10 th album clocks in at 74 minutes with 19 tracks – quite a marathon compared to his usual under 40-minute albums he has put out in the last few years. Ty is drawing a lot from the past in this album, including his style from his older works like the distorted psychedelic 60s in Melted, and the distorted fuzz in Slaughterhouse. ![]() There is a maturity to each of those older styles. His sound production emulates garage rock as wonderful as always, with the guitar and drum work offering what he does best. There may be a lot to go through, but it flies through quickly, with many tracks to love. Tall” and “Shoot You Up”, to even more retro and calmer tracks such as “Rain” and “I’m Free”, there are plenty of songs that fit Freedom Goblin’s repertoire. “Meaning” even features his wife putting out a good punk anthem to scream along to.įrom beginning to end, there is something to enjoy from Freedom’s Goblin.
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