Ty Segall: New Frontier

For how unabashedly bizarre his music can be, Ty Segall is an affable guy.

Settled on an outdoor couch, sipping from a Pacific Coast Highway mug, his measured cadence makes a real case for oceanside life’s tranquilizing effect. At times, that breezy tone is tough to square with his reputation for grinding rock’s cutting edge with a spree of fuzzed out monoliths. But experience has steadied his hand, and by now, he’s got more than enough of it to breathe easy with the throes of his passion.

“I’ve spent so much time on the road in the States, it’s all just turned into one drive, you know?” he reflects. “It’s weird to think about ‘cause you’re just kind of going and going and going, going, going, going.”