The C.I.A.
The C.I.A.
Release Date: Dec 21, 2018
Genre(s): Pop/Rock, Alternative/Indie Rock, Garage Punk
Record label: In the Red Records
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Album Review: The C.I.A. by The C.I.A.
Very Good, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 7/10
Ty Segall had a ridiculously prolific 2018. Between his solo albums, his work with White Fence and GØGGS, and a limited-run cassette he sold at a show of his visual art, Segall released five albums in that year, and when you add in his side project the C.I.A., the year-end total comes to seven. A collaboration between Segall, his spouse Denée Segall, and Emmett Kelly of the Cairo Gang, the C.I.A.
Opinion: Mediocre
The CIA is the sixth Ty Segall album of 2018, if you count all of his various projects. Unfortunately, it is also the sixth best Ty Segall album of 2018. Following three sets under his own name - the wonderfully sprawling Freedom's Goblin, the exuberant covers record Fudge Sandwich and the cassette-only Orange Rainbow - as well as albums with White Fence and GØGGS, the CIA is a collaboration with his wife, Denée Segall, and Emmett Kelly, a member of his touring band.
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