Latest Release
- JAN 26, 2024
- 15 Songs
- Freedom's Goblin · 2017
- Melted · 2010
- Melted · 2010
- Freedom's Goblin · 2017
- Melted · 2009
- Three Bells · 2024
- Three Bells · 2024
- Fudge Sandwich · 2018
- Three Bells · 2023
- Three Bells · 2024
Essential Albums
- Goodbye Bread is Ty Segall’s 2011 come-down long-player — a possible reaction to the crazed, mind-warping, psychedelic party that was 2010’s Melted. His fifth studio album (and first outing on Drag City) finds the prolific San Francisco garage rocker musing on more mature subject matter while keeping his youthful enthusiasm well intact. The title-track opens with a sole electric guitar accompanying Segall singing wistfully under wet reverb before bass and drums sneak in with morning-weary tempos. The staccato rhythms on “California Commercial” pick up the pace prior to “Comfortable Home (A True Story),” which plays like a medicated Kinks tune. It’s hard not to think of Love’s second album Da Capo while listening to the flamenco-tinged guitars that stop and start on “The Floor.” With catchier songs and more complex arrangements, Goodbye Bread could be the stone from which Segall steps into more masterful territories.
- Garage-rock hero Ty Segall cuts a happily frazzled figure on this 2010 album. Between the loopy psych-pop impulses of “Caesar” and the primitive riff-bashing of “My Sunshine,” the California native seems right at home in this lo-fi primordial soup. But that’s not to say he lacks ambition; simply look to the handclapping glam-punk overdrive of “Girlfriend” or the considered sweetness of the ramshackle pop study “Bees.” Sticking to short running times and even shorter song titles, Segall’s in no danger whatsoever of overstaying his welcome.
- 2024
- 2022
- 2021
- 2019
- 2019
Artist Playlists
- A 21st-century garage-rock institution unto himself.
- The punks and shape-shifters that inspired his garage-pop.
- This Californian pushes his garage-rock peers to work harder.
- The grinning kid brother of San Francisco garage rock.
- 2023
- 2023
- 2023
- 2019
Appears On
- Bill Callahan & Bonnie "Prince" Billy
More To Hear
- Savages frontwoman Jehnny Beth talks about the power of music.
- Music from Ty Segall, Exploded View and Everything Is Recorded.
About Ty Segall
One of the leaders of California's psych-influenced garage rock scene, Ty Segall has produced a catalog as prolific as it is diverse. Working as a solo act and in a number of side projects, he's released dozens of albums since he left the Epsilons and went solo in 2008. Depending on the album, Segall can sound raw (2016's Emotional Mugger) or refined (2013's Sleeper), and he's capable of focused one-man-band efforts (2009's Lemons) as well as sprawling releases with many collaborators (2018's Freedom's Goblin). He's just as compelling stripping back the noise and adding synths (2021's Harmonizer), composing film music in classic style (2022's Whirlybird), or recording at home (2022's subdued Hello, Hi and 2024's folk/rock/psych workout Three Bells). No matter the setting, Segall's strong melodic frameworks and the infectious intensity of his music are the constants in his ever-evolving discography.
- HOMETOWN
- Laguna Beach, CA, United States
- BORN
- June 8, 1987
- GENRE
- Alternative