A typical false impression of the Tiny Desk is that bands should maintain it quiet or go all-acoustic. So once I invited Ty Segall to play in our workplace, I made a degree of assuring him he may crank his electrified, riff-heavy guitar noise to 11. His three-word reply got here through e-mail: “We will rock.”
True to his phrase, the band pushed the boundaries of the area with stadium-sized vibes, opening with the pulse-spiking “You are the Physician,” from the 2012 album Twins. They adopted with the title minimize from this yr’s Possession and the rolling, harmony-rich “Whisper” from 2021’s Harmonizer. They closed out the set with a gritty tackle 2010’s “Girlfriend” and “My Finest Good friend,” from final yr’s Three Bells. It is a number of the most wonderful shredding you may ever see on the Tiny Desk.
SET LIST
- “You are the Physician”
- “Possession”
- “Whisper”
- “Girlfriend”
- “My Finest Good friend”
MUSICIANS
- Ty Segall: vocals, guitar
- Emmett Kelly: guitar, background vocals
- Mikal Cronin: bass, background vocals
- Ben Boye: keys
- Evan Burrows: drums
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Robin Hilton
- Director: Joshua Bryant
- Audio Technical Director: Josh Newell
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Video Editor: Maia Stern
- Videographers: Joshua Bryant, Maia Stern, Sofia Seidel
- Audio Engineers: Josephine Nyounai, David Greenburg
- Manufacturing Assistants: Dhanika Pineda, Dora Levite
- Sequence Editor: Lars Gotrich
- Photographer: Grace Raver
- Tiny Desk Staff: Kara Body, Ashley Pointer
- Govt Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson, Robin Hilton
