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.
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.
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.
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.
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
#42 | / | Rough Trade |
#66 | / | Piccadilly Records |