“Cut with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio, it sounds like three people in a room intent on building the heaviest thing possible. “We wanted it all to be about power and performance,” Segall says, and III bears him out: it’s a collection of nuked anthems that feels perfectly suited for the apocalyptic spirt in the air.”
“…like a consolidation of the artist’s many sonic excursions than a mere return to form, incorporating “heavier than thou” riffs as well as catchy, glammed out melodies and woozy psychedelia of yore.”
In a goofball YouTube promo, Dr. Ty Segall, PhD defines “emotional mugging” as a “psychoanalytic subject-to-subject exchange formed as a response to our hyper-digital sexual landscape.” So sizing one another up, frontin’, a cold barrier of distraction, the practice of impenetrable differentiation… This silly promo vid is of special import because I think Ty’s trying to get all psychological on us in bigger way.
Psych, glam, garage and beyond, Ty Segall continues to carve out his own twisted niche. Manipulator, a double lp, only furthers this. At 17 tracks the album spans the width and breadth of Segall’s expanding oeuvre, rounding out the best of his many guises. Unlike some of his contemporaries, maturation suits him.
MCII finds Cronin as a twenty-something in existential crisis, confronting the transition — and associated questions and adjustments — from youth to adulthood.
Per his m.o., psych/garage journeyman Ty Segall stayed busy in 2013. In addition to relocating from San Francisco Los Angeles, Segall recorded and performed with two disparate projects this year.
John Dwyer and co. do not stop. Loose and heavy, Floating Coffin finds the Bay Area vets burning through the darkness. Riffs abound, and while you might show up for the shred, it’s the intermittent levity that holds it all together
“…The Lagniappe Sessions return with Mikal Cronin, whose sophomore solo LP and Merge Records debut, MCII, lands at your favorite record store today…”
“Psych noise careening off of a scuzz-splattered garage floor, what’s not to like?”
“Obviously, we love this guy…”
“…DeMarco taking notes from his hero, Jonathan Richman, both in style and attitude.”
