Segall, Ty - Melted

Segall, Ty - MeltedSomeone must have dropped some acid into Ty Segall's lo fi garage rock beverage, since his third solo effort, Melted, sounds noticeably noisier, trippier, and more damaged than his previous efforts. Segall's feel for a simple, sturdy melody hasn't escaped him, but the tunes often drift in and out of clouds of sound effects, percussive jams, guitar feedback, or keyboard drones, and a warm layer of pushed to the red distortion surrounds most of the

Over 25 years have passed since Arthur Russell left us

it's memory a dream of scents and light that didn't seem to exist in space

ones that would finally reach an apotheosis on Hudson's 1978 Rasta Communication album

and keyboardist Alice Sandahl

Released on his own zeitgeist wrangling label Italians Do It Better

A's notoriety

evoked the songwriting of indie-hobos inspired by Latin America

This straightforward approach made Person Pitch feel all the more out of left field

it's not surprising that

making music on a laptop and microphone with her friend Huntington and living vicariously through Instagram and TikTok

All That You Can't Leave Behind

Recording sessions for the album occurred at Battery Studios