Kaleidoscopes in sound

There are a lot of ways to tell a story. Loudly in a bar to a stranger, quietly on a pillow to a beloved. In a TikTok, a letter, a stand up act. A novel, short story, a narrative essay. Sign language. A concept album. A graphic comic, cave art, miming. On his new album Love Rudiments the mercurial and always curious Ty Segall tells a story solely with percussion. Segall’s hardly new to the drum kit—he’s pounded skins on many of his own records, and since 2011 he’s been the drummer in the band Fu...