While the track spans over 10 minutes in length, the grooves are pulsating, and dip in dynamics bringing the listener into the fold. Still, he takes to this Glam Rock role with ease it’s almost as if he once made a T-Rex covers record… While the instrumentation is often erratic and freewheeling, it’s controlled chaos, such as on the track ‘Warm Hands (Freedom Returned)’. Looking at Segall’s recent work, it’s a surprise. Songs such as ‘Break A Guitar’ and ‘Papers’ showcase Segall as a Marc Bolan like front man, his vocal performance surprisingly clean, exhibiting some pleasant harmonies in some areas and a stripped back performance in others. Not only this, but Segall gives us some varying styles, with elements of Psychedelic music, Glam Rock, Noise Rock and hell, even some elements of Country. Thankfully, this is the case, with Segall seeming to milk all he can from most of the tracks, perhaps not counting the 13 second closer. With this new record, it’s a similar situation it only stands at 37 minutes long, so nearly every track has to leave a lasting effect. One of the strengths of Emotional Mugger was that it was relatively short, so that, while Segall’s style didn’t differ hugely from track to track, it didn’t matter since the album packed such a punch. But even without comparisons to his back catalogue, Ty Segall is an album that stands firmly on its own two feet. After 2016’s excellent Emotional Mugger, it’s no surprise that Ty Segall’s (second) self-titled record retreats somewhat from the out of control nature of his former release, perhaps more to the style of his earlier material.
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