Ty Segall: Lemons
(Goner)

Lemons is the second album from Ty Segall, a San Francisco-based garage-rocker with ties to Thee Oh Sees. (John Dwyer’s Castle Face Records released album no.1 from Segall.) And while Segall is fond of throwing the occasional odd effect on his guitar, his work here takes a far more traditional path than the expansive, Krautrock-fusion sound Dwyer has made his own. Fundamentally, this is a dark, solid selection of a dozen songs, made notable by Segall’s occasionally unsettling vocal delivery (“Lovely One” might give the wrong idea if put onto a mix for your sweetheart) and a pinpoint, obsessive sense of rhythm. The soaring, clattering instrumental “Untitled #2,” in which strummed guitar segues into a percussive workout, demonstrates that Segall doesn’t need his voice to make himself heard.