Fuzz

One only knows one. Two is balanced therefore stagnant. III both active and reactive. Charles Moothart, Ty Segall and Chad Ubovich are FUZZ. FUZZ is three. And III has returned. Songs for all, and music for one.

III was recorded and mixed at United Recording under the sonic lordship of Steve Albini. Keeping the focus on the live sounds of the band, the use of overdubs and studio tricks were kept to a minimum. Albini’s mastery in capturing sound gave FUZZ the ability to focus entirely on the playing while knowing the natural sounds would land. It takes the essential ingredients of “guitar based music” and “rock and roll power trio” and puts them right out on the chopping block. It was a much more honest approach for FUZZ — three humans getting primitive, staying primitive. The goal was never to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes it’s just about seeing how long you can hold on before you’re thrown off. read more…

One only knows one. Two is balanced therefore stagnant. III both active and reactive. Charles Moothart, Ty Segall and Chad Ubovich are FUZZ. FUZZ is three. And III has returned. Songs for all, and music for one.

III was recorded and mixed at United Recording under the sonic lordship of Steve Albini. Keeping the focus on the live sounds of the band, the use of overdubs and studio tricks were kept to a minimum. Albini’s mastery in capturing sound gave FUZZ the ability to focus entirely on the playing while knowing the natural sounds would land. It takes the essential ingredients of “guitar based music” and “rock and roll power trio” and puts them right out on the chopping block. It was a much more honest approach for FUZZ — three humans getting primitive, staying primitive. The goal was never to reinvent the wheel. Sometimes it’s just about seeing how long you can hold on before you’re thrown off.

Album opener “Returning” serves as a sort of mission statement for the album. It’s an auditory meditation on the power of one and the different perspectives of one, whether it is the singular person looking inward, or a group of people coming together as a single unit. Not only is it an echo of the return of FUZZ, but also a broader return to form – raw and empowered through vulnerability.

“Nothing People” and “Spit” served as a launching point into the new sphere that would become III. They were written around the same time, and felt like they opened two different doorways — familiar in some ways and new in others. “Time Collapse,” a rogue cut from the days of FUZZ’s II, landed soundly on the scorched surface of side A to round things out.

“Mirror” opens up the B side and the collective consciousness. Mirroring the call to arms of “Returning,” the song asks the listener to link arms with the band, march to the same drum of love, and create a space of equality among the freaks. The pummeling rhythm demands the request to crush the mirror that feeds you lies. In the end, it’s a ballad for the unique, twisted, and natural self that should be exalted before any falsehood.

The stomping back half of III serves as a self aware call out to the lineage in which this record calls home — both personal and general in the historical context of raw power trio records. “Blind to Vines” and “End Returning” accentuate the meditative qualities of FUZZ. While coming from opposite ends of the spectrum, they balance restraint and compulsion. FUZZ will ultimately cave to compulsion. That is without question. But what good is a freak out without an initial glance inward? “End Returning” takes that look inward and scrambles the timeline. It finds peace and challenges it in the next breath. Arguably, it brutalizes this peace to test the foundations on which it rests, inevitably bringing the origin back into focus.

Three points reflected in three Mirrors; a pyramid of sonic destruction and psychic creation. Nothing People feed the roots while the freaks fly free in the treetops – Blind to Vines, Eyes Closed, Stuck in Spit, triumphing the Returning of beginnings and Ends Returning while beginning to see the Time Collapse. Love is the only way to annihilate hate, and Sketchy freaks live to bleed. All shades of color, truth and lies, III is the pillar of unity and singularity. All is nothing, and only nothing can generate everything. Log out, drop thought, turn up.

News

• Ty Segall’s band Fuzz share new live set video Jan 29, 2021
• Ty Segall’s Band FUZZ Share Full New Live Set: Watch Jan 29, 2021
• Indie Basement (10/23): the week in classic indie, college rock, and more Oct 23, 2020
• Interview: Fuzz Guitarist Charles Moothart on New Album and Working With Steve Albini Oct 22, 2020
• FUZZ STALK BACK WITH ‘III’ – ANOTHER SNARLING & LOUD GUITAR ROCK EFFORT (ALBUM REVIEW) Oct 21, 2020
• Fuzz Oct 21, 2020
• FUZZ Leans on Time and Minimal Production for Their Third Record Oct 21, 2020
• ALBUM REVIEW: Ty Segall and friends turn it up on ‘III’ as FUZZ Oct 21, 2020
• Video: Fuzz, ‘Mirror’ Oct 20, 2020
• Roundtable: Fuzz on Nirvana, Sonny Sharrock, and Boris Oct 20, 2020
• FUZZ Carefully Conjure Cacophony on 'III' Oct 20, 2020
• Fuzz Stays Heavy on New Single & Video Oct 20, 2020
• FUZZ – “Mirror” [Video] Oct 20, 2020
• WATCH: FUZZ SHARES VIDEO FOR PUMMELING MUSICAL RIDE TRACK “MIRROR” Oct 19, 2020
• FUZZ Present New Single/Video | New Album Out This Friday Oct 19, 2020
• Fuzz Release Body Horror Video For “Mirror” Ahead Of New Album [Watch] Oct 19, 2020
• Fuzz Releases Fiery Video for New Song “Mirror” Oct 19, 2020
• FUZZ III Oct 19, 2020
• Ty Segall’s Fuzz share body horror “Mirror” video (new album out this week) Oct 19, 2020
• FUZZ Share New Single ‘Mirror’ Oct 19, 2020
• Ty Segall’s FUZZ Share Riff-Heavy New Song “Mirror”: Stream Oct 19, 2020
• FUZZ – “Mirror” Oct 19, 2020
• FUZZ Present New Single/Video | New Album Out This Friday Oct 19, 2020
• Fuzz – “Spit” Sep 30, 2020
• Fuzz Drop New Scorcher ‘Spit’ Alongside Surreal Stop-Motion Video Sep 30, 2020

Tour Dates

Date	Venue	Location	With	Tickets
Sun 10/2/2022	Desert Daze 2022	Lake Perris, California
Sun 10/9/2022	Mosswood Park	Oakland, California