Le toujours aussi prolifique Ty Segall commence l’année 2016 en force avec la sortie de son 8e album. Oui, oui, son 8e album solo. Alors que certains artistes ne réussissent même pas à faire ça au courant d’une carrière, le Californien n’a même pas encore frappé 30 ans.
When I saw Ty Segall perform in Chicago on September 23, 2014 promoting his album Manipulator, he and his most consistent backing team (Mikal Cronin, Emily Rose Epstein and Charles Moothart) briefly served the audience some off-the-cuff covers of classic David Bowie songs (“Ziggy Stardust,” “Suffragette City,” and “Queen Bitch”).
Beneath Saturday’s glowing full moon, Ty Segall took Portland on a fucked-up tour of the human subconscious in the same manner that fictitious chocolatier Willy Wonka led his Chocolate River boat ride.
Well. It’s time to write about this show. I think I will begin with the time-tested Adjective Toss while I gather my sentence-forming abilities.
Unsettling. Massive. Fun! Weird. Heavy. Insane. Jaw-dropping. Repellent! Endearing.
It should be more exhausting to keep up with Ty Segall. The clip at which the garage-glam savant releases records is on par with the ’70s supernatural output of our dear departed friend David Bowie.
Like Funkadelic, Ty Segall’s Emotional Mugger is music as cocaine. Mugger is Segall’s ninth solo album in eight years, during which time he’s dabbled in apocalyptic blackness, breezy sweetness, and garage rock at its Kinks-ian apex, riding each style to the end of the track, each one another coaster at the amusement park.
ndie darling Ty Segall’s Emotional Mugger is like the scene from Back To The Future when Marty McFly steps into Doc’s garage and is completely obliterated by the sheer power produced by a giant amp from a single strum.
Los Angeles – Ty Segall is relentless in his pursuit of covering the great American rock ‘n roll songbook. He has taken on a number of personas and new incarnations that David Bowie himself would have to be impressed with.
Le prolifique troubadour garage rock californien Ty Segall fait chauffer un peu plus ses amplis avec son huitième album solo en neuf ans, Emotional Mugger.
American singer/songwriter Ty Segall has always been able to capture listeners with his unique garage rock/punk/psychedelic influenced music. Although it seems that his sound has mellowed as each album has dropped, he still puts enough energy into each record to thrive.
The hot take: this record sounds like Tame Impala. You can get into the intricate details as to why Emotional Mugger sounds unique or different, but the intentionally garagey distortion on the bass and the John Lennon vocal aesthetics are major components in the overall sound of Emotional Mugger.
On Monday, January 18, Ty Segall & The Muggers played a headlining show at San Francisco’s legendary The Fillmore. Photographer Greg Chow was there to catch the show, with CFM, and VIAL supporting.
It’s hard to talk about Ty Segall without mentioning the sheer amount of music he’s put out, and what that means for the people who listen to it. In the time between the release of his last LP Manipulator and this week’s Emotional Mugger, Segall has released two EPs, a live album, and an LP of T-Rex covers.
Ty Segall has built his career on being prolific. Through his various projects, the garage-rock luminary has released more than a dozen albums since 2008 that all serve up a similar blend of glam vocals, lo-fi sludge, and psychedelic guitars.
One of the hardest working nouveau garage rockin’ cats in show biz, Ty Segall and his band Fuzz released their new album, “II,” recently, and he’s also in another new band called GØGGS, with a debut out next year.
You could accuse Ty Segall of having an old-school work ethic – he even circulated early copies of this album on VHS tape. But there’s nothing dusty about him. The San Francisco garage-punk wunderkind flaunts all his frantic energy and wild-eyed humor on Emotional Mugger.
Ty Segall has never stuck with one distinct sound. He’s based his prolific career on constantly rejigging the boundaries of garage rock.
Call 1-800-281-2968, and you’ll be subjected to an off-putting message from Ty Segall, grody sound effects and all (“I am itching to hear how I can fill the holes in your ego…do you need a daddy?”).
In the interest of foregoing the usual chronicling of Ty Segall’s chameleonic artistic turnarounds, suffice it to say that here is another Ty Segall album.
The music that Ty Segall plays is, at least on the surface, not all that complicated. He plays rock and roll. That might be oversimplifying it a bit, but not by much. The San Francisco singer-songwriter is at his best when his songs are slathered in obscene gobs of dirty, druggy fuzz.
Ty Segall is one of the most active rock and rollers in the scene today, and maybe even one of the few prominent musicians who is actually a rock and roller. Whether touring incessantly or recording new music under his own name or with his numerous side projects, Ty Segall is a guitar-shredding force to be reckoned with.
True to his not-modern music, Ty Segall promoted his latest solo album, Emotional Mugger, with several old-fashioned industry techniques.
VHS tapes haven’t been relevant in years, so when Ty Segall sent his newest record to music journalists on VHS, it shed light on his thought process while recording the album. The busiest man in rock music is eager to try new things.
Ty Segall has long been a musical seeker—in a 2012 Weekly interview he listed Hawkwind, The Fugs, Gong and The Residents among key recent spins—and his latest album finds him putting his record collection to full use.
No matter how much rock writers and fans worship him, no matter how many opportunities acclaim and a loyal fan base may bring, Ty Segall has always kept his distance from music industry trends and patterns.
In Being John Malkovich, Craig and Lotte Schwartz – played by John Cusack and Cameron Diaz, respectively – find a portal that takes them inside the mind of the great actor. If such a portal existed and we could travel inside Ty Segall‘s mind, what would we find?
Whether under his own name or from various side projects, Ty Segall has kept new music waiting around the corner for years. Over a mountain of releases, he’s proven that he can shred multiple times over, and that he can match that intensity in his acoustic singer/songwriter mode.
Minimalism has retained a surprising amount of cachet in mainstream rock music during the 21st century, an era in which pop, hip-hop and R&B have almost universally become more ostentatious in their stylistic fragmentation and metal has, in general, evolved to value hypertechnical, over-elaborate excess above all else.
Ty Segall is one of the most prolific and identifiable figures of the modern day garage rock scene, so much so that it isn’t exactly a surprise when he announces a new LP.
It’s only a few weeks into the year and Ty Segall just performed what will likely go down as one of San Diego’s best shows of 2016.
