Given his astonishing work rate, that itself is quite a task.
“A general rule for recording,” says Segall, “is that I’ll hopefully never make the same album twice.” And finally, released in October, Twins – a blend of sun-baked Californian songwriting and cranked-up fuzz that might just be his best yet. Then there was July’s Slaughterhouse, 11 tracks of distortion-wracked space-rock credited to the Ty Segall Band (on two slabs of 10-inch vinyl). First, back in April, there was Hair, a gorgeous psych record made with Tim Presley of fellow Cali rockers White Fence. This year, he’s released three full-length albums. But don’t be fooled by his laconic exterior: few artists in 2012 have left their mark quite like Segall. Meet Ty Segall – Californian, 25 years old, baby-faced handsome, with dirty-blond locks that give him the air of a cherub that slipped off a cloud and somehow landed in a rock band. But for me, I was always like, is it good? For me, that’s it.” At high school, there was always this weird tribal thing – like, you’re wearing a Stooges T-shirt so you’re not allowed to put a Led Zeppelin record on.
“Guitar solos were not cool when I was 17. I’ve been too busy.” Words: Louis Pattison For a few years now, he’s sat at the heart of a thrilling new California psych scene, and regularly features in Uncut’s albums of the year list – once with three entries! How did he become unstoppable, and whatever will he do next?… “Man, I really need to surf more. In our January 2013 issue (Take 188), we met Ty Segall, the garage rock wunderkind wreaking fuzz-addled havoc with the canon.
0 kommentar(er)
