We get ‘Warm Hands’ from that aforementioned 2017 record (about a minute shorter than the album cut but considerably more amped up – all of the mellow end of song noodling gets jettisoned). Ty Segall is not the kind of musician you sense spends too much time wondering what his audience would like him to do next. What it isn’t (as you’d expect) is a greatest hits kind of full stop. Steve Albini produces and removes most crowd noise (they loiter in the background of ‘The Finger’) so that it is easy to listen to this as a cool band rocking out and nothing more. Deforming Lobes is 8 songs chosen from a three night residency Ty and the band had at the Teragram Ballroom in LA in January 2018. Much of Deforming Lobes sits more in the latter camp than the former.
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He and his mighty Freedom Band travel the gamut from gentle folksy psychedelia (check out ‘Take Care (to Cob Your Hair)’ from 2017’s self-titled album to see what I mean) to gnarly guitar shred workouts that will peel the skin from your face. With a second – oops, make that a third – and a fourth and a fifth – planned for release by year end. So as you read this sentence he’s probably put out another album. In case you’re unfamiliar with his oeuvre, he’s kind of like the California rock equivalent of Guided By Voices’ Robert Pollard. He’s on record as saying that it’s kind of a full stop.
California rocker Ty Segall’s latest is a live album.