Product Code: WET30284511
Original price was: $33.99.$20.39Current price is: $20.39.Ty Segalls Possession finds the prolific songwriter exploring a richer, more expansive palette while retaining the emotional core of his work. Across ten tracks, the album blends glam-rock flair, psychedelic textures, orchestral instrumentation, and punchy hooks to create a sound that feels both retrospective and forward-looking. Co-written with Matt Yoka, the lyrics evoke cinematic narratives and character studiestales of compulsion, desperation, and longingwhile Segalls arrangements subtly shift from intimate piano lines to swelling brass, strings, and fuzz-toned explosions. The result is an album that rewards repeated listens: layered, ambitious, and full of contrasts.
While Possession marks a departure from the raw immediacy of some of his garage-rock roots, it showcases Segalls growth as a songwriter and arranger. He demonstrates control over dynamics and space, choosing when to be bold and when to let a melody breathe. Tracks like Shoplifter and Another California Song anchor the records more adventurous flourishes with strong hooks and emotional weight, making Possession one of Segalls most accessible and compelling releases to date.
Reviews
On Possession, Segall takes what initially sounds like an electro-convulsed Ziggy Stardust and slowly refashions it into a brass-driven epic Pitchfork
After three minutes and 13 seconds of Possession s title track, Segall drops his very own woo! that this complicated rock classicist has hit on a more direct mode of expression. Mojo
A surreal road trip through Ty Segalls widescreen visionmelodic, cinematic, and strikingly alive. The Fire Note
A track-by-track dive where glam, prog, and orchestral pop collide in one of his most rewarding albums in years. New Noise Magazine
With sweeping movements of strings and horns its perhaps no surprise that Segall took that angle with Possession he ended up making arguably his most inviting, if not accessible, work to date. Treble
A1 Shoplifter
A2 Possession
A3 Buildings
A4 Shining
A5 Skirts Of Heaven
B1 Fantastic Tomb
B2 The Big Day
B3 Hotel
B4 Alive
B5 Another California Song
