Ty Segall

Ty Segall

DRAG CITY. CD/DL/LP

Ever-busy Anglophile rocker’s latest long-player comes loaded for retropop kicks.

Last heard giving his inner punk a Black Flagstyle thrashing with hardcore crew Gøggs, Ty Garrett Segall’s ninth solo album finds him back on far less aggressive form. Still grounding his sound in the fertile topsoil of the late 1960s and early ’70s, he weaves hard rock, psych, glam and pop into a vibrant patchwork whirl that borrows liberally from the likes of Marc Bolan and The Beatles, David Bowie and Big Star. Stuntplane solos and chunky riffs electrifying Break A Guitar and The Only One, while elsewhere acoustic cues and minor-key mellowness hold sway across Orange Color Queen, Papers and Take Care (To Comb Your Hair). With Segall’s magic touch shining brightly throughout, this eponymous offering once again demonstrates his effortless, and seemingly innate, ability to make the familiar feel fresh and enticing.