{"id":4113,"date":"2015-12-17T13:18:40","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T18:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/?p=4113"},"modified":"2016-02-01T13:42:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T18:42:16","slug":"ty-segall-ty-rex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/ty-segall-ty-rex\/","title":{"rendered":"Ty Segall <br>Ty Rex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ty_segall-ty_rex.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4114\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4114\" src=\"http:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ty_segall-ty_rex.jpg\" alt=\"Ty Segall, Ty Rex\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ty_segall-ty_rex.jpg 250w, https:\/\/agitreader.com\/wp2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/ty_segall-ty_rex-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Anybody who is familiar with Ty Segall could probably namedrop another artist to which he owes at least a fraction of his sound. (Let\u2019s say The Stooges, for example.) But if you can\u2019t give Segall credit for pure sonic originality, you ought to give him the time of day for his sheer music knowledge. No release to date by this San Francisco garage rocker best represents the origins of his grisly rock vision and record geekiness than his T. Rex cover album, <i>Ty Rex<\/i> (Goner Records).<\/p>\n<p>In a year where the inspiration for cover records are frequently lazy or gimmicky (see Ryan Adams\u2019 <i>1989<\/i>), it might be easy to read Segall\u2019s covering of glam-rock titan Marc Bolan and his band T. Rex as just that. But the performances on this record, which is a combined reissue of two\u00a0previously released T. Rex cover EPs, seem to indicate otherwise. Segall plays these songs like a diehard fan who just so happens to be a serious musician. He performs with his gut, with a level of passion equivalent to the original artist without ever belittling the songs to a joke.<\/p>\n<p>Segall\u2019s perspective on the originals might only be noticeable for big T. Rex fans, as the covers usually don&#8217;t bring about great changes in instrumentation or arrangement. There&#8217;s a simple change in tempo on \u201cFist Heart Mighty Dawn Dart\u201d and Segall exchanges T. Rex\u2019s classic blues-rock riffs for a wall of noise on the outro of \u201cElemental Child.\u201d <i>Ty Rex<\/i> is by-and-large the cohesion of Segall doing T. Rex true-to-form and his own grisly, off-the-cuff garage style to make the songs his own.\u00a0Rather than blowing through T. Rex\u2019s &#8220;greatest hits,&#8221; Segall curated a selection of songs that span a significant portion of the group\u2019s repertoire. (The only standout to a casual listener would be a refurbished \u201c20th Century Boy,\u201d which, as expected, shreds.) Segall even covers some \u201960s era T. Rex, when they were acoustic purists and referred to long-form as Tyrannosaurus Rex. At the risk of generalizing, Segall\u2019s output is not unlike that of T. Rex: 2013\u2019s <i>Sleeper<\/i> sounds remarkably similar to the Tyrannosaurus Rex\u2013era, especially \u201cSalamanda Palaganda,\u201d which Ty covers here; <i>Twins<\/i> hits as hard as <i>Electric Warrior<\/i>; and Segall\u2019s most recent full-length, <i>Manipulator<\/i>, is a fuzzy, wild ride like the whole of T. Rex\u2019s output. With <i>Ty Rex<\/i>, it\u2019s easy to see that connection isn\u2019t lost on Segall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anybody who is familiar with Ty Segall could probably namedrop another artist to which he owes at least a fraction of his sound. 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