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Aug 9, 2011When Goodbye Bread gets it right on so many levels, the only thing one can do is trust Segall, in as much as he has trusted his own terribly unique artistic vision.
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Under The RadarAug 5, 2011With Goodbye Bread, he ushers himself to the fore of the pack of current garage-psych revivalists. [Jul 2011, p.87]
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UncutJul 28, 2011The 23-year-old deals in the kind of one-take, reverb-drenched, sugary psych-pop that mostly sounds effortless and might occasionally be genius. [Aug 2011, p.98]
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Jul 12, 2011Ty Segall culls some some of his scene's most appealing aspects and affixes them to unusually-written, melodically appealing songs; in essence, he's an ideal ambassador for his Bay Area milieu.
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Jul 5, 2011Goodbye Bread specializes in this kind of twisted subtlety; no longer content letting loose and letting the detritus fall where it may, Segall has crafted a record both familiar and surprising, both sunny and spooky.
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Jun 30, 2011While Reatard had his antecedents, he swung his music violently into alien terrain; Goodbye Bread is an entertaining trad-rock record made by a talented tunesmith who'd rather make love than war.
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Jun 29, 2011Segall spent six months writing and recording Goodbye - his longest investment in a record yet. The time spent soaking in the classics has paid off.
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Jun 29, 2011Goodbye Bread may not change the face of music, cause, y'know, it's only rock 'n roll. But it's damn hard not to like it.
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Jun 22, 2011The record takes a bit to warm up, and actually picks up speed and weight when the songs begin to slow down, so that by the end you're pretty much coated in whatever sweet strangeness Segall is hocking up.
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Jun 22, 2011Goodbye Bread shows Segall's calmer side, but the frantic instrumentals, heavy guitar riffs and rough-around-the-edges sound remain, betraying his decidedly harder roots and showing that Segall hasn't gone totally soft.
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Jun 21, 2011This sonic diversity isn't a new thing for Ty Segall, but the way that Goodbye Bread reveals itself shows a marked increase in thoughtfulness when compared to the San Francisco psychedelic songwriter's previous five albums.
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Jun 21, 2011Goodbye Bread sounds more like a "real album" than anything Ty Segall has done to date, but not so much so that it robs him of the loose-limbed soul that makes him memorable.
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Jun 21, 2011These sharply-targeted psychedelic guitar eruptions are well-contained, and always tantalisingly brief.
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Jun 21, 2011After several albums of caustic, cryptic scuzz-punk, San Francisco's Ty Segall finally cleans up his act--or, at the very least, dustbusts it around the edges.
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Jun 21, 2011Goodbye Bread is filled with such rich, breathtaking moments, and Segall, who plays every instrument here, sounds as though he's savoring every part of process.
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Delusions of AdequacyJun 20, 2011Goodbye Bread is a fitting development on an impeccable path. The depth accomplished through five albums is obviously grand and it's definitely as if Segall is purely improving with every passing year.
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Jun 21, 2011