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Ty Segall - Chrome Ty Segall
Ty Segall, precleared for flight in full rock congress with the band (Ben Boye/Evan Burrows/Mikal Cronin/Emmett Kelly), shifts Chrome. Songs of massive riffs, swung, tightly arrayed lines of fuzz & distortion, twin-guitar attack-and-parry, endopic keyboards kicking, precise & thudding power, a rhythmic core on the march in full BAND energy. The songs are lyrically allusive trips, dark passages in the labyrinth, everything in the air bristling collectively, as minds collide. RIYL: PiL, Flipper, Emotional Mugger
In the spring of 2025, right around the release of Possession, Ty Segall started hearing voices, calmly at first, but soon screaming: “Get the band back together!!!”
Immediately, his mind began working, creating, collecting and collating riffs for songs, an album that he and the band — Ben Boye, Evan Burrows, Mikal Cronin & Emmett Kelly — will come to all call Chrome.
Chrome — the element, not the album — is shiny, reflective, resistant to corrosion. Chrome the album’s got that too: in hard-springing rock strung with lyrically allusive passages moving furtive and bleak through labyrinthine paths in the darkness. Joining social phenomena and autobiographical dream imagery in song-sequenced, head-snapping flashes, hitting left/right hemispheres fast and furiously. In massive riffs and thudding power in the rhythm core, twin-guitar attack and parry, tightly arrayed lines of fuzz distortion, keyboard textures of bright and thickness. All mixed immediate and flexible, colorful and clean, spicy-sweet, with Ty’s vocals of vinegar and sand, wine and grains of silver nitrate, pointing the way. That’s Chrome.
The band came together fast and hard, their five heads writing half the songs here, with others featuring Ty and Evan collabing, Matt Yoka and Denée Segall writing some too. Accounting, we believe, for its high-performing social nature and hot rocks. Its guitars slammed immaculate, big waves & dark apocolypto energy bonfires on the beach, from proto to punk to grunch, projected from the crowd-sourced energy of their mind-meld to shake the cages of the larger collective beyond.
RIYL: Television, Blue Oyster Cult, The Adolescents, Pink Fairies, Iggy, Crazy Horse, Nirvana
Track List
SIDE A
A1 - Hospital
A2 - Running to Nowhere
A3 - Black Paint
A4 - Glass
A5 - Play Cowboys
SIDE B
B1 - Everything You’ve Been
B2 - Let Go
B3 - Separation
B4 - Chrome
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Relevant Record Café,
260 Mill Road
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CB1 3NF.
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If your record is deemed as faulty, you will be entitled to a refund, swap or store credit (to the same value as your initial purchase).
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Basically, please be absolutely certain the record you have purchased is faulty before following the returns procedure. If possible, we suggest testing the record on different turntables and weighting the tone arm differently.
Steepletone and Crosley Record Players
After having several “faulty” records returned to us (that in actuality had nothing wrong with them), we cannot guarantee that any records we sell will play correctly Crosley or Steepletone branded record players.