Used to be January was a bit of a dumping ground for music; smaller bands and releases living in the shadow of everyone’s year end lists and folks checking out all the stuff they may have missed. So I wasn’t expecting much, thinking I would just nestle down with some cozy 70s prog and 80s metal, hibernating until the “good stuff” starting poking out. Welp, that’s already started to happen, so we’re going to keep this trend of what’s been coming in the house and I’ve been listening to for the last week, and we’re kicking it off with an album I’ve fallen hard for, a surefire bet for my own end of year list. Or albums, I should say, because wouldn’t you know it? Yesterday Ty Segall had to go and release his third album in one 12-month cycle…

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