Chrome: Vinyl LP

Pre-Order Item. Release Date Subject to Change.
Label: Drag City
Release Date: 28th August

We're a Ty Segall shop, I'm a Ty Segallman and the day I don't get excited by him releasing a record then send batter my doors down because I've lost the will. I can't see myself ever not being hyped for his work but NOTHING gets me hyped more than when he's fuzzing out with the heavy garage rockers and so my Segall'meter is in the read for 'Chrome' with Emmett Kelly (check Cairo Gang please) and Mikal Cronin in the band with Evan Burrows and Ben Boye. Big riffs, massive hooks and another essential from our favourite boy. 

In the spring of 2025, right around the release of Possession, Ty Segall
started hearing voices, calmly at first, but soon screaming: “Get the
band back together!!!”
Immediately, his mind began working, creating, collecting and collat-
ing riffs for songs, an album that he and the band
—
Ben Boye, Evan
Burrows, Mikal Cronin & Emmett Kelly
—
will come to all call Chrome.
Chrome
—
the element, not the album —
is shiny, reflective, resistant
to corrosion. Chrome the album’s got that too: in hard-springing rock
strung with lyrically allusive passages moving furtive and bleak through
labyrinthine paths in the darkness. Joining social phenomena and
autobiographical dream imagery in song-sequenced, head-snapping
flashes, hitting left/right hemispheres fast and furiously. In massive
riffs and thudding power in the rhythm core, twin-guitar attack and
parry, tightly arrayed lines of fuzz distortion, keyboard textures of bright
and thickness. All mixed immediate and flexible, colorful and clean,
spicy-sweet, with Ty’s vocals of vinegar and sand, wine and grains of
silver nitrate, pointing the way. That’s Chrome.
The band came together fast and hard, their five heads writing half
the songs here, with others featuring Ty and Evan collabing, Matt
Yoka and Denée Segall writing some too. Accounting, we believe, for
its high-performing social nature and hot rocks. Its guitars slammed
immaculate, big waves & dark apocolypto energy bonfires on the
beach, from proto to punk to grunch, projected from the crowd-sourced
energy of their mind-meld to shake the cages of the larger collective
beyond.