TY SEGALL \ STRANGE UNIVERSE (AUTUMN)

Just announced - Guitar Wolf opening.

Back at last to celebrate his demonically radical new record Possession, Ty brings with him his riders of the apocalypse - Emmett Kelly, Mikal Cronin, Evan Burrows and Benjamin Boye. Packed with an arsenal of his usual tricks - insane riffs, big noise, non-stop rawk - the album also incorporates shades of the 1960s, and what Mojo referred to as a “strutting glam-baroque”. Pitchfork raved about the album, too, hailing this album of feel-good anthems as "a return to the California songs that have long made Segall the golden boy of the Golden State’s psychedelic revival". 

Tokyo masters of rock&roll mayhem. 30 years young & the foot ain’t ever come off that car crash accelerator pedal. Still swerving, dead man curving, burnin’ out & danger driftin’. Link Wray overdriven guitar rumble fuzz & feedback, Joan Jett warm leatherette aesthetic obsession, locomotive rockabilly rhythms & early Ramones punk chunk thump. Noise, hiss & drone co-opted from fellow Japanese sound assault merchants High Rise & Mainliner. It’s a sonic rendezvous designed to cave in heads & destroy frequencies, while yr dancing yr ass off on that road to oblivion…. Mr Slackjaw

"There are garage-rock bands, and then there’s Tokyo terrors Guitar Wolf... This band’s style of rock’n’roll demands more imposing prefixes, like “jet,” “hurricane,” and “Kawasaki ZII 750.” Much as 1960s British Invasion groups bastardized the blues and sold it back to American teens, Guitar Wolf have spent the past 30(+) years making once-rebellious Stateside sounds—surf, rockabilly, Nuggets, CBGB punk—seem dangerous again, forsaking retro purism for monomania. Your typical garage band might make your ears ring; this one kills zombies." - Pitchfork