Album Review: Pre Strike Sweep by GØGGS

Ty Segall's record as a rocker is nearly unimpeachable. The guy makes tons of great music, seemingly for the right reasons. He is, by all accounts, a good dude who just happens to eat, sleep and breathe psychedelic garage rock. He is almost universally beloved. A giant of the underground. It is ….

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Of the innumerable albums, backing-band permutations, and side projects that form the Ty Segall ecosystem, GØGGS are the most singular. Though Segall again teams with longtime bandmate Charles Moothart in the group, their fusion of skate-punk and space-rock on GØGGS' self-titled 2016 debut marked a clear aesthetic detour from the continuum of British Invasion rock and proto-metal that connects most of Segall's releases (and his work with Moothart in Fuzz). GØGGS, after all, is ultimately less a vehicle for Segall's wandering whimsy than a platform for the hectoring, hardcore-schooled bark of Ex-Cult shouter Chris Shaw.

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