Ty Segall

Ty Segall follows 2022s acoustic introspection opus Hello, Hi with a deeper, wilder journey to the center of the self. With Three Bells, hes created a set of his most ambitious, elastic songs, using his musical vocabulary with ever-increasing sophistication. Its an obsessive quest for an expression that answers back to the riptide always pulling him subconsciously into the depths. Questions we all ask in our own private mirrors are faced down hereand regardless of what the mysterious Three Bells mean in the context of the albums libretto, you can be assured that Tys ringing them for himself, and for the rest of us in turn.Its a growing up and out of your head parable, but the farther out you get, the farther in you go. The two-head-ed suggestion of 2012s Twins has grown ever more complex, as the outside/inside world of perception dissolves into a greater world of the sensesall six or seven of them! Since Ty deals in sounds, Three Bells rings with them most of all: sounds signaling the next phase, ringing to keep you stuck, or to set you free, with guitars like voices, questioning and answering the others in their turn.Since 2008, the singer/guitarist/puzzled panther we call Ty Segall has played out his hunger to be free over a dozen solo LPs and a series of other-named projects. In his music, freedom has taken the form of a rippling eclecticism in songs and production sounds, all of them conversing from album to album in a mad diversity of voices. Across the discograverse, 2014s Manipulator and 2018s Freedoms Goblin precede Three Bells in double-album epicity, each unfurling its own multivarious tapestry in an atmosphere of gleeful octophenia, as Ty throws everything against the wall, delighting in how much he can stick there. With all fifteen songs brimming with perspectives, shape-shifting incessantly, not even waiting for a new song to work into the next idea, Three Bells steps into the shoes of both his previous doubles at the same time, designing finally to do the extended format justice.The acoustic songs of Hello, Hi had been a blast of fresh air; wanting another hit of that sweet air, Ty recognized that his body was craving to play the drums. This was a key that let him into the albumthe songwriting happening on both guitar and drums. As the songs emerged, Ty pushed them out farther and farther compositionally, challenging the way theyd be played, then playing much of Three Bells in conversation with himselfa decision that further elevates the albums conception.