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- Summary: The latest full-length solo release from rock singer-songwriter Ty Segall features songs co-written with Matt Yoka.
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- Record Label: Drag City
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock
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May 30, 2025It's definitely a milestone and a career highlight, as well as a release that anyone who likes real live, breathing and bleeding rock & roll should be glad exists.
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UncutMay 28, 2025[The album is littered with songs that are grand, detailed and ambitious. [Jun 2025, p.39]
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May 28, 2025There’s always been a debt to The Beatles percolating around within Segall’s vast discography: a certain elegant way with a tune, a Lennonish rasp, that’s suggested he could make a more straightforward album, with a little more appeal beyond the garage rock illuminati. Possession is essentially that record, one where his Beatlesy nous aligns to a sort of strutting glam-baroque, without losing the dynamism that made Segall’s scrappier projects such fun. [Jul 2025, p.82]
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May 28, 2025Possession finds the psych-rock hero piecing together a comprehensive portrait of his artistic range, which, this time around, manifests in Sixties pop-influenced melodies that swirl around blazing guitar solos, acoustic solace, and bouncy nostalgia.
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Jun 18, 2025Segall displays a new level of maturity that seeks to harness the power of his craft, proving that killer riffs can be enjoyable without being polarizing.
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May 28, 2025The album is full of familiar moves—but comfortingly so.
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Jul 15, 2025It’s the sound of a restless artist choosing comfort for a moment and making a hangout record that still sparkles with his signature charm. It’s psych-pop-rock that doesn’t need to be groundbreaking to be satisfying.