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.
“Bizarre, crazy, amazing, I need to go get some ear plugs,” were just a few comments I heard during Ty Segall and The Muggers set Tuesday night at the legendary Fillmore in San Francisco. You could feel the bands excitement of playing at The Fillmore and sharing the same stage as so many legendary acts.
There is perhaps no living artist more prolific than Ty Segall. In a mere decade, the Los Angeles guitarist has dabbled in garage pop, psychedelia, and glam rock while releasing eight minimalist lo-fi pop albums and joining at least eight different bands (three of which are ongoing concerns).
“No man is good three times” reads the sticker that adorns the cover of Ty Segall’s latest full-length solo record, Emotional Mugger. It’s the mantra that was at the heart of the reaction to Franklin D. Roosevelt’s controversial victory in the 1944 U.S. Presidential election.
To get into Ty Segall’s sold-out show at the Teragram on Friday night, you had to fight your way past a line of David Bowie fans snaking down 7th Street from the nearby Monty Bar, where one of about a zillion Bowie tributes was taking place. It was hard not to read some fitting symbolism into this.
There are two things you can say about California’s Ty Segall. One, he’s incredibly prolific, and has been known to release more than just one album a year.
Ty Segall can’t stop writing songs, and seems to have run out of ways to release them. Advance copies of the underground/indie garage guy’s new album, “Emotional Mugger,” arrived on VHS tape.
Garage rock titan Ty Segall is back with what’s probably his most twisted album yet.
Rejoice, Tone Deaf readers, we’re taking you into the weekend with some good news, particularly if you happen to be a fan of King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard or Thee Oh Sees.
Garage-rock hero Ty Segall is back less than a year after his last solo release. In a promotion for Emotional Mugger, Segall created a hotline number for fans to call, where he explains what emotional mugging truly is.
