Album Review: Ty Segall - Twins

Underground stoner rock indie kid Ty Segall's third release this year (following the albums Hair and Slaughterhouse respectively) is a good summer-time record, even though its release in his native USA will welcome a colder climate. Listening to the track Ghost, you can still picture yourself hittin' the road, going for a wave and later drinking a home brew. One of the artists/musicians of indie rock groups like The Black Lips, Thee Oh Sees and the now-deceased Jay Reatard.

Twins has a definite Dead Meadow-versus-Kyuss sound, with a heap of metal-edged guitar picking. Throw in a kick-ass rhythm section, which generally Segall does himself when recording, and it's an album that's overall a winner, but can be a downer at times because you lose that spontaneity that gets created when separate musicians are working out of sync.

The first listen sounds like each song is a repeat of the one that comes before, but one suspects that more listens will reap rewards. The Hill is a song to take note of because its initial falsetto opening is a distraction from what comes later, which is more of heavy rock of ages past. On Who Are You the mood takes on a groovier feel that's partly '60s psych-tinged fuzz, which eventually leads back to one of one hundred distorting solos ­– a trademark sound of the young Segall. As far as releases go, it's all for those that love low-fi rock and anything to do with said artists above. However, it will take a bit of time for new listeners to get on board.