When Ty Segall and collaborator Matt Yoka started writing the lyrics to the former’s new and 17th solo album, Possession, the pair set off to present a series of “quintessentially American stories.”
To that end, Segall says the record’s acoustic orchestral-punk freakout Alive was inspired by the infamously cannibalistic Donner Party case of the mid-19th century before transforming into a broader look at man’s battle against the elements.
