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Q&A
Ty Segall: “I feel like it’s the deepest and farthest I’ve gone”
What’s your relationship with the double album?
I love the format. If a group of songs is leaning towards going deeper. It just allows you to just go so much further out, whether that’s to be super-eclectic and all over the place, or to take a singular idea and go as deep as possible. I love the short-form LP where you can trim the fat, cut it down, make it really streamlined. But truthfully, my favourite albums are probably double albums, where you can really live inside of the thing.
These songs hang together well, but the concept isn’t immediately as clear as on some of your other albums – what’s your take on it?
I would agree with that. It’s a deeper concept, it’s [more about going] deep inside oneself, going as far as you can, with the kind of self-reflective song. Most of my songs are those kind of tunes, but I feel like this is the deepest and the farthest I’ve gone in that sense. What’s interesting to me is that I wrote almost the whole thing on the acoustic guitar and it really felt like Freedom’s Goblin or something, where it was me writing on the acoustic and then filling out the sounds. I haven’t really done that since that record, aside from “Hello, Hi”, but that was an acoustic album. It was fun to just throw the whole kitchen sink at this album –I got into the idea of cycles, so I would use a lot of the same voicings on the guitar, the same finger placement of a chord, but just move it all up the fretboard. It created this weird tension and specific feeling that isn’t in a lot of the songs. So maybe that’s my subversive way to tie it all together.