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Twins

Ty Segall

Twins

The hyperactive garage rock / psych rock specialist with his 3rd album release of 2012

ADM rating[?]

7.7

Label
Drag City
UK Release date
08/10/2012
US Release date
09/10/2012
  1. 9.0 |   NME

    It has the reckless spirit of a record that hasn’t been over-analysed, but with an intense flurry of ideas from someone in the absolute prime of their creativity
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  2. 9.0 |   PopMatters

    This is a superb, must-have album that places Ty Segall firmly at the centre of the garage scene
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  3. 8.7 |   Beats Per Minute

    It’s the best album of its kind to come out this year and, perhaps even more significantly, Segall’s best work to date
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  4. 8.5 |   Prefix

    Thrashing, infectious and emotional
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  5. 8.2 |   Paste Magazine

    So what separates Twins from the rest of the Segall canon? Not a whole lot, really
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  6. 8.0 |   Consequence Of Sound

    It bounces from ballad to sludge, from pop to punk, and blends them all seamlessly
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  7. 8.0 |   Spin

    Twins stands on its own as a spectacular bit of grandstanding
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  8. 8.0 |   All Music

    Twins is a bright moment in a nearly ceaseless evolution, and one of the most fluid and successfully ambitious in Ty Segall's catalog
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  9. 8.0 |   Mojo

    Another tangle of urgent hip-thrusters, messy scissor kickers and would-be long-lost Nuggets selections from 1966. Print edition only

  10. 8.0 |   Uncut

    While melancholia lies at its heart, it's also strangely, hearteningly comforting. Print edition only

  11. 8.0 |   The Observer

    As the man's promotional T-shirts point out, "there's no PARTY without TY"
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  12. 8.0 |   Pitchfork

    It's close in format to Goodbye Bread, which maintained cohesion despite several shifts in delivery and tone. Twins' offerings, however, are far more sugary and immediate: faster tempos, thicker fuzz, more power
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  13. 8.0 |   No Ripcord

    Ty Segall might be one of the hardest working garage rockers around, but, in true rock and roll fashion, he merely makes it look easy
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  14. 8.0 |   BBC

    Though song titles like Love Fuzz and Inside Your Heart might suggest a softening of sorts, Segall is poised over his distortion pedal throughout, and the results are mighty effective
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  15. 8.0 |   Blurt

    Despite how often he churns out work, this is steadfast and cohesive
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  16. 7.9 |   Bowlegs

    A last joyful blast of fuzz bomb glory
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  17. 7.5 |   A.V. Club

    His twitchy inclinations, the multitudes influencing and contradicting each other, keep him just off-kilter enough to stay exciting
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  18. 7.5 |   Under The Radar

    The sound of the 1960s counter culture movement crashing headfirst into post punk, taking the discordant sound of rebellion from the former and melding it with the sweaty lo-fi chaos of the latter
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  19. 7.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    Best thought of as a cutting room floor of songs and ideas, and as such feels like the least individually pronounced of Segall’s offerings this year – but nevertheless comfortably hits many of the same peaks of quality
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  20. 6.0 |   The Guardian

    Twins does what it does brilliantly – but Segall makes it sound so effortless, you keep getting snagged on its limitations
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  21. 6.0 |   Q

    The combination of sweet pop tunes and mean distorted guitar is as winning as it ever was. Print edition only

  22. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    A precision that belies his surface amateurism
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