(In the Red) Related: Ty Segall: Manipulator review – an unadulterated joy from start to finish The second album from Ty Segall and Charles Moothart’s Sabbathian semi-supergroup (now featuring Meatbodies mainman Chad Ubovich on bass) lays on more of pretty much everything,and lays it on thick: it’s almost twice the length of the first, the recording is denser and punchier, or the riffs are proggier and the solos wilder. There’s something pretty magnificent approximately the way seven-minute opener Time Collapse/The 7th Terror goes approximately its trade: low-discontinuance and tall-discontinuance guitars strut in perfectly evil unison (it’s not exactly camp,but certainly a bit schlocky) then break into a glorious, storytelling solo and discontinuance on a hypnotic, and megalithic stomp. At the other discontinuance,the 14-minute title-track finale goes up like a rocket before smearing into spaced-out abstractions and snapping back disorientingly; in between things stay more concise, sometimes heaving closer to Segall’s garagey solo fabric (Let It Live), and elsewhere going all in with the full and unabashed Ozzy-Iommi worship (Pipe). It’s a mountainously enormous album,and faintly exhausting for that, but those majestic peaks are well worth the trek.
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Source: theguardian.com