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Fuzz ain't complicated. Listening to it isn't, anyway. The power trio of California hard-rock lifers Ty Segall, Charles Moothart and Chad Ubovich produces an ear-splitting spaceout that requires little more out of you than the ability to nod your head to its abundant grooves.

Labeling it is where it gets, well, fuzzy. After a while, describing what Fuzz does becomes an embarrassment of hyphens: a kind of proto-metal-psychedelic-blues-prog-rock with hints of punk that emulates a bargain bin's worth of record-store subgenres as easily as it evades them.

Musicians are notorious for eschewing labels, but Fuzz especially seems bent on creating something that defies easy categorization.

"We don't set out trying to make 'Fuzz songs,' " says bassist and vocalist Ubovich, in an interview ahead of the band's show Monday in Salt Lake City. "It's just what is written when all three of us come together."

Fuzz's structure is a familiar one. It's heavy rock 'n' roll played in the power trio dynamic pioneered by Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience or Primus. And like the work of those trios — and don't forget their frequent callbacks to vintage Black Sabbath — Fuzz's self-titled debut in 2013 and the recent follow-up "II" seem destined to be obsessed over in basements and under black lights forever after.

Or if you're just interested in some loud rock music, that's really all the band's interested in making. Let the labels fall where they may.

"It's really not that hard," says Ubovich. "It doesn't require too much thought, and it's not really stressful at all. It's kind of natural."

Fuzz began in 2011 as a collaboration between Segall and Moothart. Segall, whose solo work as a prolific guitarist and singer is well known among heavy-rock listeners, chose to sit behind the drums while contributing vocals. Moothart, who plays in Segall's touring band and with the Moonhearts, had been looking to create a space big enough for his riffs. They released 2013's "Fuzz," and Ubovich, who leads Meatbodies, joined soon after.

"II," a double album, thickens Fuzz's stew of influences and peppers in as many spacey guitar solos as it can. It's darker, as evidenced by tracks like "Silent Sits the Dustbowl" and "Burning Wreath." But the band also breaks up the doom with genre-bending explorations like the blues rock number "Rat Race" and the 1:48 hardcore stomper "Red Flag." But even though you'll hear hints of Sabbath and Cream, the hallmark of Fuzz is that there is no Ozzy or Clapton. Fuzz is purposefully egalitarian. Even though drummer Segall brings with him the most name recognition thanks to his prolific solo output, all three members are accomplished — and busy — musicians.

The collaborative aspect of the band is an essential part to what sets Fuzz apart from each member's various other projects.

"It's a simple equation," Ubovich says. "If there's only one person who writes everything, that's going to be one-sided. Fuzz is definitely the sound of all three of our brains."

"Whatever is written by all three of us — then you get Fuzz," Ubovich says.

Fuzz is born from a scene where it's not uncommon to see musicians floating around in permanent transience from project to project. The Venn diagram showing the intersecting circles of Segall, Mikal Cronin, Meatbodies, The Oh Sees and Fuzz is a jumbled one indeed. Ubovich says it comes from a desire to play as much music as possible.

"If you're interested in the arts, it's very important to take yourself and your craft seriously," he says. "If that means doing multiple things, it means doing multiple things."

That same "it-is-what-it-is" philosophy applies to Fuzz, and differentiating it from whatever else its members are doing.

"When it's Fuzz time, it's Fuzz time," he says. "We all kind of know that." —

Fuzz

With Walter

When • Monday, Nov. 23, 8 p.m.

Where • Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, Salt Lake City

Tickets • $15; 24Tix

More in March • Ty Segall's tour in support of a new album, "Emotional Mugger" out Jan. 22, hits Salt Lake City on Saturday, March 12, at the Urban Lounge.