The first of three albums Ty Segall released this year, Hair continues the upward trajectory
that the prolific garage rocker’s albums have taken since he began releasing
solo material in 2008. It’s a short
record, with eight slices of sunbaked California garage rock stretched across
just under thirty minutes. The eight
songs on this record continually morph and bend in on each other, and it sounds
like Segall and Tim Presley (the sole member of White Fence) were so excited
about all of the ideas they have together that they have to shove too many into
each song. But instead of feeling
overstuffed with ideas that were better left on the cutting room floor, Hair is surprisingly coherent. Segall is the better known of the two, and he
holds down rhythm guitar and drums, but Presley on bass and especially electric
guitar is the real star of this album, dropping psychedelic freakouts into the
middle of poppy jangle rock numbers.
Ty Segall & White Fence - "I am Not a Game"
Ty Segall & White Fence - "The Black Glove/Rag"
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