Ty Segall & White Fence - Hair
Critic Score
Based on 17 reviews
2012 Ratings: #111 / 1118
User Score
Based on 86 ratings
2012 Rank: #256
Liked by 4 people
April 24, 2012 / Release Date
LP / Format
Drag City / Label
Garage Rock / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

91
A.V. Club

As pleasurable it is to listen to, Hair sounds like it was even more fun to bash out. 

83
Beats Per Minute

It is a series of songs that all land in the upper echelon of either’s recorded output to date.

82
Pitchfork

In every song, there's a jump, an oomph, a missing-reel moment, in which a sudden left turn devours a song whole or a stray thread bumps everything off the designed course.

80
Consequence of Sound

The eight-track Hair is a truly worthwhile example of teamwork, and an important, albeit understated, milestone in both Segall and Presley’s careers.

70
No Ripcord

This is two artists combining influences, ideas and idioms; expressing together, something greater than their individual talents.

70
PopMatters

On Hair Segall and Presley manage to occupy the spaces left vacant by each other, leaving listeners to wonder, with every continuous spin, where one of them ends and the other begins.

70
musicOMH

Hair is something of a freak out soundtrack, a tripped out, occasionally coherent, occasionally not set of songs

70
Drowned in Sound

Ty Segall and White Fence haven't reinvented themselves, nor have they revolutionised garage rock, but Hair stands as a welcome reminder of how enjoyable guitar and drum music can be both to play and to hear.

Felix_96
60

6/10

solid

Fav tracks: Time, Crybaby, Scissor People, Tongues

SJCTurntable
32

A frustrating listening experience as this collaboration between Ty Segall and White Fence aka Timothy Presley offers so many tripped out and catchy hooks without the song structure to make this more of a classic of the merging of garage and psychedelic rock. The homage to those spacier moments of the Beatles’ discography is clear, and one admires the commitment from both artists to explore whilst they jam together unfettered new reverbed avenues. Yet, this reviewer would also have ... read more

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Added on: April 19, 2012