Description
Release: 02-02-2024
Ty Segall follows 2022’s acoustic introspection opus “Hello, Hi” with a deeper, wilder journey to the center of the self. With Three Bells, he’s created a set of his most ambitious, elastic songs, using his musical vocabulary with ever-increasing sophistication. 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 album — the songwriting happening on both guitar and drums.
For Three Bells, Ty and Denée Segall collaborated on five of the songs. In Ty’s world, Denée forms the second self outside his self. And these selves radiate out into the world through other selves. Co-producer Cooper Crain, whose contributions to Harmonizer and “Hello, Hi” were deep, engineered and mixed most of the album, again bringing his individual vision into the process. Finally, some of the songs as written needed the kind of playing that Ty couldn’t get alone. On some numbers, Emmett Kelly’s bass parts not only addressed that need, but inspired the way the songs eventually went down. So it was when the Freedom Band was called in to play; their contributions transformed the material.
Three Bells takes Ty Segall’s trips so much deeper and farther than they’ve gone befor — a masterpiece of personal expression, expressed through words, music and production, parabolically addressing malaise with compassion in a flowing, unstoppable hour-plus of intoxicating sound.
Tracklist:
- A1 The Bell 5:07
- A2 Void 6:43
- A3 I Hear 4:36
- B1 Hi Dee Dee 3:11
- B2 My Best Friend 3:16
- B3 Reflections 4:02
- B4 Move 3:15
- C1 Eggman 4:04
- C2 My Room 4:17
- C3 Watcher 5:28
- C4 Repetition 2:24
- D1 To You 5:14
- D2 Wait 4:34
- D3 Denée 5:57
- D4 What Can We Do 2:51
