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OKAY: WHAT A FEELING

posted May 16th, 2022

The man in the tree with the guitar? He’s gonna sing! But the sun shining through the branches — are those rays yellow or hazy gray? When again are you not going to feel this way? Pulling at the scratchy wool threads of an old sweater, Ty Segall extracts melodic fibers to braid each strand anew. What emerges then weaves together chimes of freedom and rows of desolation - it lights up all of our senses (including the all-important equilibrium-centric 6th and 7th senses) with encompassing waves.

"Saturday Pt. 2" concludes a mini-suite that forms the penultimate movement of "Hello, Hi". Fuzz-free guitars roll forth, ringing with consonance and humble purpose. Ty's reassuring murmur leads the way until Mikal Cronin’s elegant saxophone throws open the windows, losing joy, hysteria and all the other simple pains and pleasures that have sat behind closed doors for so long. It's a slow-roiling escape-anthem, finally sighting what's been missing and wished-upon for what seems like forever: the time we find to play, the magical expanse of Saturday.

TGIS! Listen to “Saturday Pt. 2” by clicking the link above. And crank it, cos here comes the weekend! It's just around the corner: “Hello, Hi”, July 22nd, with tour dates starting in June!

TY SEGALL & THE FREEDOM BAND ON TOUR:

 

6/14/22 191 Toole Tuscon AZ*

6/15/22 Lowbrow Palace El Paso TX*

6/17/22 Granada Theater Dallas TX*

6/18/22 The Mohawk Austin TX*

6/19/22 One Eyed Jacks Presents at 1104 Decatur New Orleans LA&

6/20/22 Variety Playhouse Atlanta GA*

6/22/22 Orange Peel Asheville NC*

6/23/22 Ram's Head Live Baltimore MD*

6/24/22 Union Transfer Philadelphia PA*

6/25/22 Brooklyn Steel Brooklyn NY*

6/27/22 Royale Boston MA*

6/28/22 Danforth Music Hall Toronto ON Canada

6/30/22 Agora Theatre Cleveland OH

7/1/22 Thalia Hall Chicago IL#

7/2/22 First Avenue Minneapolis MN

7/3/22 Mission Ballroom Denver CO^

7/5/22 Metro Music Hall Salt Lake City UT^

7/6/22 Backstage Bar Las Vegas NV^

7/7/22 Teregram Ballroom Los Angeles CA^

8/11/22 Way Out West Festival Gothenburg Sweden

8/14/22 Palp Festival Martigny Switzerland

8/15/22 Mascotte Zurich Switzerland

8/17/22 Rapa Nui Zandvoort Netherlands

8/18/22 Le Cabaret Vert Charleville Mezieres France

8/19/22 Festival Paredes de Coura Paredes de Coura Portugal

8/20/22 La Route du Rock Festival Saint Malo France

8/21/22 Green Man Festival Brecon Beacons United Kingdom

8/24/22 Magic Mirrors Le Havre France

8/25/22 Square Dom Bedos Bordeaux France

8/26/22 Santana 27 Bilbao Spain

8/27/22 Canela Party Torremolinos Spain

 

 

*w/Shannon Lay

& w/ Shannon Lay, Silver Synthetic

^w/ William Tyler

#w/ Bill MacKay

Artists in this story: Ty Segall