Ty Segall Heard the Voices, Got the Band Together, and Made Something Monstrous

Right around the release of Possession last spring, Ty Segall started hearing voices. They were calm at first. Then they got louder: get the band back together. So he did. Ben Boye on keys and piano, Evan Burrows on drums, Mikal Cronin on bass, and Emmett Kelly on guitar all came back into the fold, and the five of them spent a solid month playing through songs before going to Sonic Ranch with producer Cooper Crain (Bitchin Bajas, Stereolab) to cut the whole thing in six days. The result is Chrome, out August 28, and it is one of the heaviest records Segall has made.

“Black Paint” is the lead single and arrives under two minutes — twin-guitar attack, full-fuzzed grungiosity, ship-sinking riffs crashing over a song about true love and the men who drink black paint. Punk meets pop in a thrash and lunge. The video was filmed at various Segall shows by Alex Bulli and captures the five-headed demon exactly as advertised. The album also comes with a simultaneous limited EP, Love Fuzzz, with two tracks from the Chrome sessions’ mirrored edges: a sludge and stoner take on a Twins classic and a hypnotic fried-kraut art psych piece.

Segall and the band headline the sold-out KEXP BBQ in Seattle on August 22, then tear through the UK and Europe in September. Pre-order below.

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1“Hospital”4:42

2“Running to Nowhere”2:29

3“Black Paint”1:59

4“Glass”4:26

5“Play Cowboys”4:58

6“Everything You’ve Been”2:05

7“Let Go”3:32

8“Separation”2:51

9“Chrome”5:07