Tall and When Mommy Kills You are visceral bursts of vintage Segall garage rock, in contrast to the folk leanings of You Say All the Nice Things and I’m Free that ensure a varied tone. Tracks like The Main Pretender expand on this direction with its tight sax riff and delightfully distorted guitar solo, whilst Alta indulges in the genre’s dramatic side with bombastic horns and Segall promising “I will fight to save you!” An absolutely killer cover of Hot Chocolate’s Every 1’s a Winner brings out Segall’s funky side, which he maintains on the groovy dance-rock tune Despoiler of Cadaver. It opens with Fanny Dog, an explosive, glam rock tribute to Segall’s pooch.
It’s also an album of incredible diversity and superb musicianship that justifies its length better than many albums shorter than it.įreedom’s Goblin is ludicrously eclectic. At 75 minutes, his latest album Freedom’s Goblin shares a similar running time with classic double albums such as the Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Electric Ladyland and Can’s Tago Mago. Prolific American garage rocker Ty Segall is changing that. Whilst there’s always been the risk of a double album running out of steam, it’s so easy to make one these days that artists regularly stretch out 40-minutes of content for the sake of it. In fact, the reaction to an album that long is frequently an exhausted groan. Nowadays, artists can flippantly string together 90-minute projects and it’s no big deal. With the advent of CDs and digital downloads, the significance of making a double album has diminished dramatically. Album Review: Ty Segall - Freedom's Goblin
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