Ty Segall | Freedom's Goblin | CD 1661

Freedom's Goblin is the new Ty Segall album: 19 tracks strong, filling four sides of vinyl nonstop, with an unrestricted sense of coming together to make an album. It wants you to get your head straight - but first, the process will make your head spin! Back in the Twins days, we talked about the schizophrenia of Ty's outlook; today, it's super-dual, with loads of realities all folding back on each other. On any given side, we're tracking five or six full-blown personalities, unconcerned with convention or continuity. So drop the needle - who can say what it'll sound like where it lands? This is Freedom's Goblin - one track engendering, the next one oppressing, violence up in the mix - a look at everything around that Ty used to make the songs. What will you use it for when you listen? The songs came in the flow of the year: days of vomit and days of ecstasy and escape too, and days between. The rulebook may have been tossed, but Freedom's Goblin is thick with deep songwriting resources, be it stomper, weeper, ballad, screamer, banger or funker-upper, all diverted into new Tydentities - each one marking a different impasse, like a flag whirling into a knot, exploding and burning on contact, in the name of love and loathing.

TRACKLIST

1. Fanny Dog
2. Rain
3. Every 1's a Winner
4. Despoiler of Cadaver
5. When Mommy Kills You
6. My Lady's On Fire
7. Alta
8. Meaning
9. Cry Cry Cry
10. Shoot You Up
11. You Say All the Nice Things
12. The Last Waltz
13. She
14. Prison
15. Talkin' 3
16. The Main Pretender
17. I'm Free
18. 5ft. Tall
19. And, Goodnight