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Shenandoah Davis
Photo by Abbey Simmons ::: Saturday September 4th at 4:30pm Shenandoah Davis plays the Bumbershoot edition of the Round with Goldfinch and Tomo Nakayma
I don’t know what it is about the more garage-heavy sounding bands that pepper the San Francisco musical landscape, but there is a streak of prolific that courses through them that makes being a music, er, suggester both stunningly simple and deceptively difficult. Easy, because with so many good bands releasing so many good albums, I barely have to think to suggest something new and amazing slithering out of the city. Difficult, because the more and more I look over my selections and see that there’s certain artists consistently getting name-checked, positing the theory that I might just be a star-fucking groupie.
In the brief time I’ve lived in San Francisco, Ty Segall has already put out four full albums and a handful of a singles, just dumping his progressive garage sound on the masses. His newest, Melted, heavy and throbbing, bordering on the edges of garage metal, is as good as anything he’s done before, and that’s saying much. ”Imaginary Person” is a sort of hard edged bit of bubble-gum. The shitty kind you’re dad used to buy you when he coached your baseball team, soft and chewy seeming on the outside, but brittle and blood-letting when your tiny teeth finally smashing through its rock hard surface.
Too much Ty Segall? Not a terrible thing to complain about.
Nick of Elvis Perkins in Dearland ::: photo by Abbey Simmons
I have to say, with such a vibrant year of local music, I spent the vast majority of my 2009 exploring things made in the Pacific Northwest; rather than venturing out in to the vastness of the internets and the rest of America. So most of these are pretty well known tracks, albums, and artists or from Noah’s Daily Choices — though I do hope you discover a new favorite you hadn’t heard before too. These are the records and tracks recorded outside of the 206 that I most enjoyed and listened to on repeat in 2009. (The top 10 may be in some sort of hierachal order, but after that the order is not nearly as thought out or meaningful.)
Seriously, I’ve been sitting here for twenty minutes trying to think of some sort of interesting thing to say about Ty Segall and “My Sunshine”, his brand new 7-inch, and I’m blank. A white canvas waiting for the brush.
I’ll say this, it sounds good, keeps the toes warm, and doesn’t have any unappealing odors. The kind of thing you’re happy to find in your Winter Solstice stocking.
Is it just me, or do bands seem to be kicking out a lot more releases lately? I’d just finished being exposed to Ty Segall’s band Traditional Fools, when I stumbled upon his concert and ended up buying not one, but two (blame the photo booth in all it’s shiny glory) copies of his self-titled debut. Now, just barely having digested that fine piece of 60s garage throwback I’m already having Lemons shoveled in to my mouth.
And yes, my stomach is full, my mouth fit to bursting like some sort of mutated chipmunk, but I will swallow it all - the churning chord changes, the high pitched holler of Ty Segall - all of it. It will be consumed and I will lie face down on my couch, musical stomach distended, face alight with smile.
I just made a list. The list is titled “Projects That Have Something To Do With Ty Segall.” I’ve sat here staring at said list and wondering to myself, “Does it make me creepy that I’m making a list about an artist and his many side projects?” And then I think, “I make a lot of lists, regardless of minor obsessions, I’m just a man who loves a good list. What can I say?”
After sitting and pondering my list dilemma, I realize that Traditional Fools, one of many projects gracing my imaginary list, is blasting in the background. Big, crunchy, sometimes screechy garage-rock, and my list worries fade to the background. And I sit and I stare at the garage next door. Garage. Rock.
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