Ty Segall returns with his 16th album, Possession, set to be released on May 30th via Drag City. Alongside the announcement comes the lead single, “Fantastic Tomb.”
Possession finds Ty on the hunt for new horizons, hitting the trail beneath the big skies of our frontier empire to take us on a high-octane narrative journey. The literary lyrics, co-written by his longtime collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka, paint a vivid portrait of quintessentially American stories. All the while, invigorat...
Ty Segall returns with his 16th album, Possession, set to be released on May 30th via Drag City. Alongside the announcement comes the lead single, “Fantastic Tomb.”
Possession finds Ty on the hunt for new horizons, hitting the trail beneath the big skies of our frontier empire to take us on a high-octane narrative journey. The literary lyrics, co-written by his longtime collaborator, filmmaker Matt Yoka, paint a vivid portrait of quintessentially American stories. All the while, invigorating new sounds emerge around every bend—glittering rhythmic arrangements feature more of Ty’s own piano woodshedding than ever, joined in battle by sweeping movements of strings and horns. Rife with soaring guitar leads and layers of Ty’s vocal harmonies, Possession features some of his most inspired songs to date.
The first single, “Fantastic Tomb,” is an epic story-song. Desperate for something he can hold onto, our hero takes a job hitting the house of “a man worth more than a country could make,” only to find the treasure hunt is just another ride to nowhere. The song is a modern American noir-cum-classic rock hoedown, scored with Ty’s burnt-filament lead guitar and ingeniously sealed with Mikal Cronin’s saxophone section.
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