This is an album of light and shade, an album of nuance – which might surprise some people. He wears his influences on his sleeve, sure, but he makes all kinds of beautiful rackets.
What sets Ty Segall apart from Slaughterhouse – and most of his albums – is the well-measured balance between the heavy Ty and the more melodious Ty. He moves back and forth throughout, but easily maintains unison under his idiosyncratic character; and the album is crafted to ebb and flow.
I’m not sure if Ty Segall is the unifying artistic statement he’s been working toward this whole time (as late-career self-titled albums often are), but it might be his best work to date.
‘Ty Segall’ almost plays like a greatest hits of everything the man does well, from acoustic psych-folk, to all out guitar assaults.
Segall’s new album feels like a sampler of what he’s been up to in the last half-decade. It's an easy entry point into his imposing catalog, and a complete portrait of his many capabilities.
After nine years of making albums under his own name, and countless others with countless others, this second eponymous effort will be a welcome addition to a bulging catalogue.
Ty Segall is a mixture of boisterous and blissful, and certainly is a great place to start if you're looking to introduce someone to Segall's ever-fattening discography.
While the wide-eyed, erratic glory of Emotional Mugger remains a considerably more compelling voyage into the more demented depths of his sonic escapism, Ty Segall presents a case for the benefits of easing off the gas to fully take in the road ahead.
Ty Segall is his finest effort to date, a superb record and one that will help save rock ’n’ roll, which isn’t dead, it’s merely been regrouping.
Ty Segall works so much and so fast it's amazing that every record he puts out is worth hearing, if only to see if he's finally run out of gas and/or ideas. One jaunt through the bracing and surprisingly sweet at times Ty Segall is proof enough that he's run out of neither, and it doesn't seem like he will anytime soon.
Scraping off the garage rock grit and disjointed sharp edges that characterised his previous album ‘Emotional Mugger’ for this definitive self-portrait, Segall scrubs up great.
He’s is nothing short of a chameleon when it comes to garage rock, and this is one of his most impressive outputs yet.
As much as Ty Segall is an album of potential singles material, it’s one of the most cohesive sets of music that Segall has released to date. On second thought, maybe his greatest strength isn’t his volume of output, but rather that he never stops growing as an artist.
While far from a masterpiece, Ty Segall provides a neatly packaged summary for why the singer is a modern rock ‘n’ roll treasure.
Segall’s brand of artistic abundance doesn’t leave a whole lot of room or time for marked growth. Great as Ty Segall is and as rich as the record sounds, it also serves to meet expectations rather than exceed them.
The fact that Segall is so dedicated to his craft is a double-edged sword. On one end this is everything a fan of the genre would want in a garage rock record; distorted guitars, heavy drums, and a vocalist with all the proto-punk requirements. On the other hand, this isn’t the record that is going to convert any on the fence listeners.
Segall can literally play every genre and play each well. On Ty Segall, he underlines this notion.
Prolific rocker Ty Segall drops a second self-titled album that shows how far he's come over the past decade.
The Skinny is right, the album is very nuanced like his last release, and people have derided it as boring, at least the more mellow first half. I'll agree only in part, in that the first 3 or so have always been take-it-or-leave it for me, but there is some great stuff here.
For those who dig hook-layered sweet ‘n’ edgy ragged guitar lines up front and centre in the mix of some well crafted melodic power pop Ty Segall salutes you. Channelling big phat chunky vintage Crazy Horse grooves in the opening track, appropriately titled “Break A Guitar”, through and through Ty Seagall’s 2nd self titled release in nine years is all about the guitars, the guitars and the songs, the songs and the guitars. His 9th studio album in a recording career ... read more
First few listens this is my favourite ty segall album yet. Very raw yet organized. Very enjoyable. Will come back to this later.
In Ty Segall's second self titled effort, he is joined by his backing band, the Freedom Band. It seems as if this album is sort of polarizing to listeners, but personally I really enjoyed it. It's a solid mix of the heavy and even brutal sides of Ty, but also his stripped down and vulnerable sides. The quality, for me, falters during the last third, but some nice tracks such as Orange Colour Queen still shine.
A highlight for me is Talkin', a re-recorded track from the Fried Shallots EP ... read more
Break a Guitar ~ ★★★★★
Freedom ~ ★★★★★
Warm Hands (Freedom Returned) ~ ★★★★★
Talkin' ~ ★★★★★
The Only One ~ ★★★★★
Thank You Mr. K ~ ★★★★★
Orange Color Queen ~ ★★★★★
Papers ~ ★★★★★
Take Care (to Comb Your Hair) ~ ★★★★★
Untitled ~ ☆☆☆☆☆
⏳ new & improved: time-weighted score ⏳
The Skinny is right, the album is very nuanced like his last release, and people have derided it as boring, at least the more mellow first half. I'll agree only in part, in that the first 3 or so have always been take-it-or-leave it for me, but there is some great stuff here.
1 | Break a Guitar 3:38 | 91 |
2 | Freedom 2:07 | 88 |
3 | Warm Hands (Freedom Returned) 10:21 | 99 |
4 | Talkin' 3:51 | 90 |
5 | The Only One 3:54 | 88 |
6 | Thank You Mr. K 2:52 | 87 |
7 | Orange Color Queen 3:04 | 88 |
8 | Papers 3:00 | 79 |
9 | Take Care (To Comb Your Hair) 3:07 | 86 |
10 | Untitled 0:12 | 50 |
#13 | / | FLOOD |
#17 | / | Time Out New York |
#20 | / | Diffuser |
#22 | / | Uncut |
#32 | / | Paste |
#48 | / | Digital Trends |
#76 | / | Piccadilly Records |
#91 | / | Louder Than War |