One of the easiest and most annoying ways to sum anything up is to explain it as a dash of this and a pinch of that, but Ty Segall and White Fence’s collab album Hair is part Neil Young, part Sabbath, and part T. Rex in the best possible way.
In a Gothamist interview – “White Fence’s Tim Presley Talks Recording With Ty Segall, Brooklyn’s Blandness, & Peeing With His Cat” – Chris Robbins checks in with Presely about the album’s critical success (out now on Drag City) and their ongoing tour. Segall and Presley, both Bay Area residents, build on their unstoppably fun and melodic, though somewhat disparate solo material on Hair. The project, which initially began as a split-LP, lead the two to coalesce their many talents into the ecstatic, fuzzed-out retropunk that it has become.
For further evidence of this black magic partnership: a Room 205 performance of “I Am Not A Game” where Ty uses a television set as a guitar pick.
Still interested? Check out Tom Andes’ Rumpus Sound Take on Ty Segall’s Goodbye Bread, his solo LP from earlier this year.
