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Garage rocker becomes Glam Lennon… Yeah! Yeah! Yeah!
By John Mulvey.
Ty Segall
Owning it: Ty Segall says he loves you.
★★★★
Possession
DRAG CITY. CD/DL/LP
ONE MINUTE and two seconds into the Beatles’ She Loves You, there’s a vocal punctuation that sends music off on a whole new trajectory: the Fabs united, as a collective Little Richard, letting out an ecstatic “woo!” (or perhaps an “ooh!”: what do you hear?). It’s pop’s capacity for joy, energy, spontaneity and boundless possibilities articulated in a split second.
The seventeenth solo album by Ty Segall, prolific and sometimes frustrating Californian garage rocker, may not have quite the same cultural impact. But after three minutes and 13 seconds of Possession’s title track, Segall drops his very own “woo!” – an unconscious signal, perhaps, that this complicated rock classicist has hit on a more direct mode of expression.