Drake's Take: New Releases 06.26.12

The eyes have it — Ty Segall Band release Slaughterhouse
Ty Seagall Band
Words: Drake Lelane

Welcome back Drake! – ed.

I’ve been taken out of the game for a bit, thanks to Sasquatch! Music Festival (with editing nearly 5k photos) and a new job. There have been some great releases I’ve lost out on in the process (Fiona Apple’s latest, for one), but I couldn’t pass up this week’s great releases from Ty Segall and DIIV, even if we have to keep it short. Other notable new releases come from Sonny & the Sunsets, the return of Beachwood Sparks, The Flaming Lips, The Henry Clay People, Everest, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Chain and the Gang, Milk Maid and Joe Jackson‘s tribute to Duke Ellington.

Playlist: New Releases 06.26.12: Spotify

Ty Segall Band – Slaughterhouse [Insound]
LP via Insound / iTunes / Stream via Rhapsody

Following so quickly on the heels of 2011’s quieter and more controlled Goodbye Bread, Ty Segall’s 2012 barrage of garage rock gems quickly put to bed any fears that Segall was mellowing out. Two months ago it was the excellent collaboration with Timothy “White Fence” Presley (Hair), and this week he returns with more friends to lay waste to your garage rock expectations. Slaughter is Segall at his fuzzed-out best, loud and brash but always with an ear out for a pop loving melody. There’s so much good pop to be had under all the muck that the closing 10-minutes of distortion (the aptly named “Fuzz War”) merely acts as a palate cleanser, working it’s way through your ears and cleaning out any of the many earworms that Slaughter has left behind.

Download: “Wave Goodbye” [mp3]

DIIV – Oshin [Insound]
LP via Insound / iTunes / Stream via Rhapsody

Combining the dream pop of Disintegration-era Cure with the shoegaze/Creation Records sound, Brooklyn’s DIIV (pronounced “Dive” in honor of the Nirvana song) have produced a compelling debut. Great songs like “How Long Have You Known” and “Doused” are surrounded by instrumentals and eightiesish audio landscapes making an end-to-end dream-like experience for the ears.