The world ripples, gurgles and expels! It’s not a mirage, it’s not unendurable heat, either. It’s just everything, viewed through a stained glass lens. Out of the void comes Ty Segall – with a new single/video!

With his new single, Ty’s bringing it all in a sustained blast, beginning with a shimmering frisson of acoustic guitars, a sub-aqueous release of oxygen rising as bubbles. As we spiral into sensory isolation, each bubble seems like another life – but which one’s ours? Doors are flying open, with comings and goings. This is a trip! But it’s not the beginning of the journey to the center of whatever and what you find there. This is the delirium that comes at the end.

At 6:43, “Void” upends some of the expectations a seasoned Ty Segall listener may bring to the song, building slowly, riding its initial lick through swells, drifting dreamily with the undertow pulling urgently beneath, withholding verse-chorus-type payoffs until the latter stages, then building towering climaxes on top of each other.

Directed by Ty and Denee Segall, the video for “Void” casts Ty’s mind through memory, and awe-inspiring vistas of his natural world, experienced as a senses-overwhelming nightmare of mirage, illusion and dread-filled challenge. Wandering landscapes saturated with altered color, in and out of the focus of the lens, it recalls the way recollection is filtered and distorted in strange ways, with quizzical symbology and dreamlike contradictions. One moment, it's “experience joy and walk outside,” then “it’s all fake, what I’ve seen outside.” Sometimes, you never know what you’re gonna get!

“Void” is out now!