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Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Spectrum Culture: Ty Segall Band, Slaughterhouse


New on Spectrum Culture, I review Ty Segall Band's Slaughterhouse, quite an explosive piece of garage rock, I do believe: 
If you still love rock ‘n’ roll—dang!—this has been quite the year for it. We’re only halfway through 2012, and already it has been proclaimed as the year of records that just flat-out rock. It’s easy to see why. Japandroids, Cloud Nothings and The Men, among others, have released high-profile albums drowned in crunchy distortion and good ol’ punk-inspired grooves that shake the listener to the core. While the ubiquity of immediate, loud, garage-like rock in today’s indie market may be viewed as a welcome change of pace from other recent trends, especially the tendency towards the atmospheric, the electronic and the chilled, there’s always a danger that we might get too much of a good thing.
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