Wasted Shirt (Ty Segall & Brian Chippendale) Announce Debut Album/Release Animated Video For “Double The Dream”

There’s a scene in Boogie Nights, Paul Thomas Anderson‘s brilliant 1997 dark comedy about the porn industry, where Heather Graham‘s character, Rollergirl, describes working with her co-star, Dirk Diggler, played by original/temporary New Kid On The Block-turned teenage racist with a felony assault charge-turned academy award and Golden Globe nominated actor, “Marky” Mark Wahlberg.  Of his good vibrations, the 8-wheeled actress claims that Dirk “can fuck really hard, or he can fuck really gently.  He’s the best.”  His contemporary musical counterpart just might be instrumentalist, Ty Segall, another Los Angeles native with the versatility to shift effortlessly between more intimate acoustic numbers and all out sonic assaults of psychedelic garage rattling chaos.  And that’s not even mentioning Ty‘s prolific output that rivals that of an adult film star.  I’m sure that it’s hyperbole, but over the last decade, it feels like hardly a week or two has gone by where there isn’t at least news of another Ty Segall release on the horizon, whether it be a solo album, a production credit, something from one of his many incarnations of bands, something else that finds him relinquishing the frontman role to sit behind a drumkit, or any variation therein.  Now, only a little over a week into the new decade, we get news of what is easily one of the most intriguing collaborations from Segall to date.  This one has the potential to vibrate the plaque off and disintegrate your teeth.

Wasted Shirt brings Segall together with the force known as Brian Chippendale, one man whose ability to generate his own tsunami of pummeling sound has become legendary.  Since 1994, Chippendale‘s highly influential Rhode Island duo, Lightning Bolt, has more than earned their name playing unorthodox shows on the floors of venues, surrounded by crowds as he smashes the ever-loving shit out of his drumkit, while shouting distorted vocals through a makeshift mask patched up like leatherface and rigged with an effected contact microphone.  Also operating and recording as a solo artist under the name of Black Pus, Wasted Shirt marks yet another two-piece beyond Lightning Bolt or Mindflayer — his D&D referencing combo with Matt Brinkman of Forcefield — ready to prove that you don’t need any more than yourself and one other friend to conjure up an engulfing wall of sound.

Their debut, Fungus II, is slated for a February 28th release on on Famous Class Records.  A truly collaborative effort, both members share vocal duties, while Segall plays guitar, bass, and harmonizer and Chippendale remains on the drums throughout the album.  Even the idea of their impending noise is already making some noise of its own, particularly with one certified legend who has had the privilege of hearing it in advance.  Here’s what author/musicologist/punk rock icon, Henry Rollins (Black Flag, The Rollins Band) has to offer on the project:

“Ty’s 2019 album, First Taste, and the new Lighting Bolt album, Sonic Citadel, are easily some of the best material either entity has ever released so if these two happened to find themselves in the same recording studio, a fan just might entertain elevated expectation levels. In fact, some might actually show signs of enthusiasm, even excitement at the fact that from July 5 -13, 2018, in the air-conditioning free environs of Ty’s home studio, the duo, eventually calling themselves Wasted Shirt, wrecked the joint as thoroughly as you hoped they would.

The album is exploding euphoria from start to finish. The more you play it, the better it kabongs you upside your head. Hectic doesn’t even begin to describe it. Brian and Ty, two mere particles in the grand scheme, collide at high speed, the technicians dive for cover, the reaction is recorded. Mutation is achieved. This is Freedom Rock. Turn up the volume. Hasten your emancipation. Sonic joy awaits.”

Along with the announcement, we get our first taste of Wasted Shirt via Somer Stampley’s stop motion video for lead single “Double the Dream” below.

Fungus II is available for pre-order now on limited edition colored vinyl.  Each copy of this new LP comes with an eight page risograph lyric zine featuring the art of Chippendale, known for his graphic design work ,which has graced the cover art for his output with Lightning Bolt.

Fungus II Tracklist:
1. All is Lost
2. Zeppelin 5
3. Fist is my Ward
4. Harsho
5. Double the Dream
6. The Purple One
7 Fungus 2
8. Eagle Slaughters Graduation
9. Four Strangers Enter the Cement at Dusk