Ty Segall shifts into sharp metallic form on his new album: Chrome, To be released aug 28th

Jun 12

Pre-cleared for flight in full rock congress with his whole band in tow, Chrome is a death-defying dive into Ty’s surrealist worlds and dark apocalyptic passages, thumping in the monstrous vein of records like Slaughterhouse and Twins. Today, Ty releases the first single, “Black Paint,” with a new music video.

Ty opens “Black Paint” by crying out “There's no why my true love / only me and you" just before the ship-sinking guitars crash over everything! Tearing open the seal on a number about true love and “the men who drink black paint,” Segall and the band emit raw lickage and power with riffs jangling into bumping, full-fuzzed grungiosity. It’s a song of abomination: punk meets pop in a thrash/lunge, darkly disturbing and super tight. The music video, filmed at various Segall shows by Alex Bulli, reflects the five-headed demon at play: Ty, BenBoye, Evan Burrows, Mikal Cronin & Emmett Kelly.

In the spring of 2025, right around the release of Possession, Ty Segall started hearing voices, calmly at first, but soon screaming: “GET THE BAND BACK TOGETHER!” Immediately, he got to work on an album that he and the band — Ben on keys and piano, Evan on drums, Mikal on bass and vocals,and Emmett on guitar and vocals— would come to all call Chrome. Their five heads came together fast and hard, writing half the songs here; other tracks feature Ty and Evan co-writing, with Matt Yoka and Denée Segall contributing too. Chromeshines as one of Ty’s heaviest records to date: twin-guitar attack and parry, tightly arrayed lines of fuzz distortion, keyboard textures bright and thick. The live n’ loaded feel of the record lends to a month straight of playing through the songs together before recording for six days at Sonic Ranch with Cooper Crain (BitchinBajas, Stereolab).

Alongside the release of Chrome will be a limited release of a new EP, “Love Fuzzz,” with two sides of cave-dripped reflections from the mirrored edges of theChromesessions: “Love Fuzzz”, a frenzied sludge & stoner take on a Twinsclassic, and “My Pet Guru,” hypnotic art psych fried-kraut air. Chrome and “Love Fuzzz” will release simultaneously on August 28th. Ty Segall and his band will headline the sold-out 2026 KEXP BBQ on August 22nd before touring through the UK and Europe this September; tickets are on sale now.