NEW ALBUMS AUGUST 2022 TAKE 303
“In a room we are waiting/Living life behind closed doors”
THE UNCUT GUIDE TO THIS MONTH’S KEY RELEASES
TY SEGALL
“Hello, Hi”
DRAG CITY
ARELY has the dust settled on his last escapade, and Ty Segall, Californian dreamer and one of the most prolific creators in all of rock’n’roll, sidles by once more. Just for context, Segall’s 2021 saw not one but two new collections of music. The first was Harmonizer, a ripping rock album that dropped without warning or fanfare in August 2021. The second expanded Ty’s brief yet further – a film score for director Matt Yoka’s Whirlybird, a documentary following the Los Angeles News Service, whose roving helicopter tracked wrongdoings across LA’s urban sprawl throughout the 1980s and ’90s. Time for a pause? Of course not.
Seasoned Ty watchers will know that he tends to follow a zig with a zag, and so it is with . It does, broadly, what did not. Where that album was electric, synthetic and raw, is largely acoustic, rustic-sounding and steeped in a sort of fey, offbeat prettiness. Where felt like the work of a full live band, bears the mark of a record made alone in isolation, or something close to it. Ty’s album covers always
