“First Taste is testament to Ty Segall's shape-shifting talent”
“Garage rock made with saxophone, mandolin, Japanese koto and bouzouki? Most garage-inclined albums, even those of the psychedelic persuasion, don’t often leave the traditional band configuration. First Taste – which might be Ty Segall’s 12th solo studio album (it depends how you’re counting) – adds a music shop’s worth of exotic instrumentation and double drummers to this Californian’s driving, sp”
“If First Taste is your, well, first taste of Ty Segall, it might be easy to brush him off as self-indulgent noise rock. The album is overly-produced and as gaudy as a paisley shirt, sure, but it’s also immensely compelling, inventive and fascinatingly unhinged, all while still maintaining a tight control and an understanding of how to reign it all in to create an actual song from the mire of noise”
“Temporarily abandoning the guitar, the prolific garage rocker channels his indulgences and comes away with an unusually focused album.”
“Where Ty Segall went after Freedom Goblin was always going to be interesting. The 2018 double-album was such a career-defining statement, it left you feeling as if Segall, in his garage rock guise at least, had achieved his ultimate form. Needless to say, a couple of releases on, First Taste is a very different record. Written in the shadow of mudflows and wildfires that brought devastation to no”
