A minute into "Finger," the opening track on Melted, the fourth solo record by Ty Segall, an amplifier obliterates the song's initial mellowness with an ungodly squeal, and an enormous wall of distortion swallows the song whole. In headphones, it's a tinnitus-tempting tidal surge - both ears are flooded with riotous noise, but one can detect, through and within the track's blown-out badassery, a concerted attention to production value.

Who says roaring garage rock can't also be immaculately engineered?

For the 23-year-old Orange County native, production is every bit as important as songwriting.

Read the full story here before Segall's Wednesday show at The Brotherhood Lounge.

Ty Segall

with Monotonix, Zargent, Dub Narcotic Selectah
Wednesday, Oct. 13, 9 p.m., $6
The Brotherhood Lounge, 119 Capitol Way N., Olympia
360.352.4153