@KOOLAID263

8 years ago

I remember the first time I listened to this record, I had just come back from partying with some friends, and still wasn't entirely sober. I was in a mood where all I wanted was to listen to some awesome records, so I began by listening to Salad Days by Mac DeMarco due to my friends raving about it. The album ended up being a very solid record. Then as the album came to a close I looked at the suggestions and this album popped up, so I put it on, and holy fuck. From track one I was fucking hooked, "Finger" dragged me in, I sat in silence for the entire album, wondering how someone could do this with music. I didn't realize this sound existed, see I have a rather wide-ranging musical taste, and its as if Ty Segall took everything I loved about psychedelic, glam, punk, metal, and shoved it in a blender, to make something so profoundly different from anything else. Perhaps the musical equivalent of any great Surrealist painting, such as the Scream by Edvard Munch, just as Edvard Munch used strange colours that swirl together and forms only vague shapes, that gives off a deep sense of the alien. Ty Segall does something very similar, he takes strange sounds mixes them and creates a masterwork, creating something so different and alien, that only he could have made. The record feels almost schizophrenic, the way he goes from Caesar's fluttering flutes and hippy-ish vibe straight into the heavy distorted sound of the opening to Girlfriend. Its almost as if with this record he was trying to do something no one ever really did before something new and anarchic, like he didn't care what was popular in the mainstream, like a "fuck you" to all the shitty, uninspired music that makes up too much of today's sound(not saying this "my generation's music sucks", the good stuff's just underground). The result of this is something visceral, anarchic, and absolutely beautiful, a true masterpiece for the modern era

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