GØGGS

GØGGS - GØGGS
Critic Score
Based on 6 reviews
2016 Ratings: #552 / 1004
User Score
Based on 33 ratings
Liked by 2 people
July 1, 2016 / Release Date
LP / Format
In The Red / Label
Garage Punk / Genre
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CRITIC REVIEWS

80
AllMusic

This album is a wound-up marvel of imaginatively bent punk rock, and if Segall, Shaw, and Moothart have more like this in them, one can hope they'll pass it along.

75
Consequence of Sound

Though Segall may have written and produced the self-titled album’s ten searing tracks, the music is truly a showcase for Shaw’s gruff bark, an ultra-refined take on Ex-Cult’s ’80s hardcore worship with razor-sharp, overdriven guitars and waves of distorted synths running high in the mix.

74
Pitchfork
Segall, Shaw, and Moothart never set out to shift paradigms or start a revolution– they’re simply three friends, hellbent on sustaining guitar music’s urgency and simplicity. In the age of glossy mixing and instrumental auto-pilot, their ungovernable racket’s refreshing and woefully needed.
70
Exclaim!

GØGGS is great, but if this band plans on growing and not just putting out another "let's bring back '80s punk, shall we?" record, they'll have to get a little weirder and wilder on their next release.

60
NOW Magazine

On the one hand, the songs sound totally alive - like a downed electrical wire whipping around the sidewalk and spraying current. On the other, it's more tossed-off-sounding than thoughtful, cohesive or remarkable.

twwalter
77

Ty Segall's latest project is, in ways what you would expect a Ty Segall side project to be. There is the fuzzy, lo-fi sounds, the goofiness and charm, but above all else it's shameless fun to make pummeling hard rock.

Favorite tracks: She Got Harder, Needle Trade Off

sourcherry24
88

Fuzzy, hazy record. Love it.

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Track List

  1. Falling In
  2. Shotgun Shooter
  3. She Got Harder
  4. Smoke the Würm
  5. Gøggs
  6. Assassinate the Doctor
  7. Needle Trade Off
  8. Future Nothing
  9. Final Notice
  10. Glendale Junkyard

Year End Lists

#42/Rough Trade
#66/Piccadilly Records
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