Goodbye Bread is the fourth album by San Francisco garage rock singer-songwriter Ty Segall. Pitchfork placed the album at number 31 on its list of the "Top 50 albums of 2011". The album presented a much more melodic, sappy energy relative to Segall's previous rock-oriented releases. Distortion effects such as fuzz and overdrive, though, were still heavily broadcast in songs such as "My Head Explodes" and "Where Your Head Goes". Although only one single was released from the album (for "I Can't Feel It"), it spawned three official music videos for "Goodbye Bread", "Where Your Head Goes" and "You Make Read more on Last.fm.
A slower burn than any Ty Segall record that came out before it, “Goodbye Bread” sees the young singer/songwriter inching further out of his comfort zone than ever before. The title track is as close to a ballad than anything he’d recorded before, and “California Commercial” seemingly self-consciously cuts itself short just as a jagged, s/t-record style guitar riff starts to take over. That latter track and “Comfortable Home” are really the low point of the album, as “You Make the Sun Fry” brings the record to a stoned, hard-edged vibe that may be rooted in Lennon and T. Rex but is Segall’s own. Each successive track builds in intensity, reaching its apex with “Where Your Head Goes,” which is the only thing here that reaches the frenzied, mind-melting heights of “Melted.” In a way this is the yin to that record’s yang, a more sober affair than its predecessor but undoubtedly the work of the same artist, and just as full of earworms and striking sonic flourishes. For those for whom “Melted” and the singles were TOO fried, this is going to be a welcome change. For the rest of us who’ve anticipated everything Segall’s done since we first heard him as a one-man band, this is the sound of one of our favorite artists maturing, expanding, growing – a milestone record for Ty and the current lo-fi scene.