Back to 2015, when Ty Segall and Cory Hanson had guitars on their chests, stretching songwriting muscles and finding, to their delight, new possibilities at every run up the neck – a new normal every second. Trading vocal parts mid-song, then trading back again, modulating madly through rhythm changes, looking for a note in the harmony they’d never played or sung before. All in the service of locating the feel-good pop alchemy in a song in which no parts are repeated. Laying it all down with a sweet solid-state vibe. Almost like a form of instant nostalgia for the world that that would soon be ‘used to be...
“What happened to ‘She Is a Beam’!?!,” has been a question from Ty and Cory aficionados over the past few years. It went to heaven and lived a beautiful life there. ‘Milkbird Flyer’ is a perfect to pair with ‘She's a Beam’, hovering on a fade-in fanfare of gleaming guitar goodness before shifting into a countryish tripper with cheerful lyrics to bend and stretch the ecstatic shuffle of the beat. As with ‘She’s a Beam’, Ty and Cory are floating so tight in the harmony that we’re like, “Who’s who?” but that doesn’t matter.
These are lost-but-now-found-again songs, now rediscovered. The pure sounds of 5 years ago, but feeling like yesterday, are bright like a moment in time just waiting for its chance to exist. The special 10” LP with ‘She’s a Beam’ and ‘Milk Bird Flyer’ are available from January 29th.
