White Fence

“Tim Presley is a member of the bands Darker My Love and the Strange Boys, which do variations of dirtied-up psychedelic pop. White Fence is his third band and much more idiosyncratic. It’s just Mr. Presley making songs as complicated as he wants, with his multitracked asthmatic voice and his gift for weird, wayward song hooks. read more…

“Tim Presley is a member of the bands Darker My Love and the Strange Boys, which do variations of dirtied-up psychedelic pop. White Fence is his third band and much more idiosyncratic. It’s just Mr. Presley making songs as complicated as he wants, with his multitracked asthmatic voice and his gift for weird, wayward song hooks. On White Fence, just released on CD by Woodsist, drum rhythms stumble and recohere; chord changes are half-forgotten or blown altogether. Audio quality changes from track to track or even in the middle of a song, and so does the music’s speed. The album sounds as if it were mastered on a cassette machine with failing batteries. This whole enterprise is way, way moth eaten: the Syd Barrett/1960s Los Angeles garage-punk influences, the dirty-on-purpose sound quality, the overmodulated guitar leads.

By a certain logic it should be a stone loser. But so much in music comes down to conviction. There’s something ritual about these songs, as if Mr. Presley had been carrying them in his head, with all their details, for a long time. Listen even once, and they’re hard to shake. All of Mr. Presley’s strange touches start to seem significant and obsessively desired: a short background sigh, a few seconds of harmonica or xylophone, a new strain plopped into the middle of a song that leads nowhere, a guitar solo that’s longer than it needs to be. It’s mannered and indirect music, but he’s a poet of that.”

— BEN RATLIFF, The New York Times

News

• Gothamist feature on Ty Segall & White Fence collaboration Hair May 16, 2012
• White Fence: Interview with Tim Presley May 15, 2012
• White Fence Family Perfume Vol. 1 May 10, 2012
• White Fence Hair Interview Apr 25, 2012
• White Fence to release new Green Balloon 7" Apr 23, 2012
• Ty Segall & White Fence Perform “Scissor People” in Room 205 Apr 9, 2012
• White Fence in SF Weekly Mar 9, 2012
• White Fence premiere new track on Pitchfork Mar 9, 2012
• White Fence "It Will Never Be (Edit)" on Pitchfork Jan 25, 2012
• White Fence: Live at CMJ 2011 Review on Pitchfork Oct 23, 2011
• White Fence: The White Fence LP on Vice Jan 16, 2011
• White Fence: Is Growing Faith Review on Pitchfork Jan 14, 2011

Tour Dates

Date	Venue	Location	With	Tickets
Fri 5/18/2012	Johnny Brenda's	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania	Ty Segall
Sat 5/19/2012	Kings Barcade	Raleigh, North Carolina	Ty Segall
Sun 5/20/2012	Earl	Atlanta, Georgia	Ty Segall
Mon 5/21/2012	The End	Nashville, Tennessee	Ty Segall
Tue 5/22/2012	Hi-Tone	Memphis, Tennessee	Ty Segall
Wed 5/23/2012	White Water Tavern	Little Rock, Arkansas	Ty Segall
Thu 5/24/2012	Walter's	Houston, Texas	Ty Segall
Fri 5/25/2012	Mohawk (Outside Stage)	Austin, Texas	Ty Segall