n 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, his mind began working, creating, collecting and collating riffs for songs, an album that he and the band – Ben Boye, Evan Burrows, Mikal Cronin & Emmett Kelly – will come to all call Chrome.

Chrome – the element, not the album – is shiny, reflective, resistant to corrosion. Chrome the album’s got that too, it’s hard-springing rock strung with lyrically allusive passages moving furtive and bleakly through labyrinthine paths in the darkness, joining social phenomena and autobiographical dream imagery in song-sequenced, head-snapping flashes hitting left/right hemispheres fast and furiously. massive riffs, twin-guitar attack-and-parry in tightly arrayed lines of fuzz distortion, keyboard textures thick & bright, thudding power in the rhythmic core, all mixed, immediate and flexible, colorful and clean, spicy-sweet. Ty’s vocals of vinegar and sand, wine and grains of silver nitrate, pointing the way.