Earlier this year, Ty Segall released Manipulator, a massive, 17-track album that has received great acclaim. Segall has announced $INGLE$ 2, a compilation album of loose tracks he recorded between 2011 and 2013.
$ingle$ 2 covers the years 2011 through 2013, bringing together no-longer-in-print singles that, according to a press release, add up to a cohesive album. This was the era when the songwriter released the albums Goodbye Bread, Twins and Sleeper, plus the Ty Segall Band LP Slaughterhouse and the White Fence team-up Hair.
Manipulator delivers generous distortion and the idiosyncratic, quirky sound that has become the defining characteristic of his music. A particularly singular record, Manipulator continues to showcase Segall’s eclectic rock taste, drawing its sound from psychedelia, glam, punk, noise and most of all, garage rock.
When we first received a copy of Manipulator, one of our DJs suggested a new category for rotation: Light, Medium, Heavy, and Ty Segall. That’s how much everyone here at KEXP loves the new record.
He’s been praised as the most prolific and hardest working man in music, and when it comes to Ty Segall, it’s emphatically warranted. ‘The Singer’ is a standout on the record that now has a rad video to accompany it.
In less than a decade Ty Segall has already amassed a catalog so extensive that it would shame most artists who have been around twice as long. Manipulator, Segall’s latest excursion, is his most accomplished yet, a fuzz-driven romp through 17 conceptually-linked tracks that variously recall everything from the Stooges and the Seeds to T. Rex and Tommy James and the Shondells, all filtered through a 21st century lo-fi sensibility.
While the song explores the “mythic experience of rock” the video imagines Segall summoning the spirit of the Ty Segall Band with his guitar, right before Derek Acorah and Yvette Fielding arrive and shut the whole thing down.
Ty Segall’s Maniupulator is one of the best and most critically-acclaimed rock records of the year. It’s seventeen tracks of psychedelic, sludgy, garage rock that is steeped in ’60s influences while still sounding fresh and new. “The Singer” is one of the record’s mellowest tunes, but stay tuned for the shred-your-face guitar solo near the end.
While Manipulator itself is fast-paced, Segall delivered every song with a raw energy that made each track explode.
As the venue’s soundman hurried to cover his gear with tarps and the audience fretted over a potential cancellation, Segall strode onstage and began raging in the rain.
Name a band that starts with Led or ends in Sabbath or any other band that was accused of turning the fair youth of the ‘70s into devil-witches. These are the anachronistic peers of Ty Segall — the raw, nasty, fuzzed out musician who is returning rock to its roots.
Last week, Mayor Rahm Emanuel declared September 23 to be “David Bowie Day” in Chicago. Ty Segall happened to be playing a show in Chicago that day, so he performed a medley of Bowie songs during his encore.
Perhaps no artist has become as revered in garage rock circles in such short order as Ty Segall.
He obliterated any subtleties during his performance at The Danforth Music Hall on September 21st as Segall and his band delivered a blunt force trauma inducing set that exposed the raw proto-punk DNA beneath the glammy sheen of Manipulator.
After nailing a string of songs from “Manipulator,” Segall actually apologized to Boston for not being here for so long. Looking around the room as he and the other musicians blistered the crowd with older songs like “Thank God for the Sinners,” I think it’s safe to say we forgave him.
Ty Segall at Toronto’s Danforth Music Hall.
I’m not sure there is a currently working musician who produces as consistently excellent music — live or on record — at does Ty Segall.
Manipulator possesses a power-pop sensibility, thanks to its candy-bright hooks and Segall’s sometimes audaciously refined enunciation. The end result is a take on rock that could exist only in the 21st century, in part because its inspirations aren’t limited to one particular offshoot or era.
Stage crashers were welcome to stay and ham it up for as long as they wanted, or until the guitar stacks blasted them off into the swarming crowd. The everyman who also happens to be a guitar god, that’s our Ty.
Last night (9/18), Ty Segall played his second of two Webster Hall shows which was just as bonkers as the first night, with a constant stream of (gentle) stage divers and crowdsurfers, including Ty himself where atop the audience he sang his last song of the night.
Has anyone ever been to a bad Ty Segall show? At this point in the 20-something’s career, it seems like everyone expects the best of him without being disappointed.
Playing tracks of this year’s Manipulator as well as offerings from all over his packed discography, Segall delivered a rage-inducing performance that had fans of all ages, sex, and types jumping on stage and diving into the crowd.
Garage rock’s most prolific prodigy is not only hitting the ‘Sup as part of the Meredith Music Festival 2014 lineup this December, but he’s also undertaking his biggest Australian tour to date to coincide with the latest addition to his enormous discography.
Musical genius Ty Segall has just delighted us with an interactive video to accompany the opening and title track off his latest solo LP, Manipulator. Welcomed globally with wide-stretched arms, the latest record is as wonderful as we’d anticipated…
keeping up with Segall and friends’ (Mikal Cronin, Fuzz, Thee Oh Sees, Sic Alps) nonstop output of Northern California garage-punk-psych-metal has been like watching rabbits multiply, tricky to quantify and difficult to describe…
Over the course of six years and dozens of albums, EPs, and singles, Ty Segall, a 27-year-old Orange County-bred and Bay Area-ripened rock virtuoso, has industriously infused an almost antiquated genre with new sounds and new life…
We heard sly Ty Segall slip in a bit of Leo Nocentelli’s guitar lick from The Meters’ 1969 “Cissy Strut” during his Mercy Lounge set Monday night…
Those venues are all part of the current tour itinerary for garage and glam-inspired rocker Ty Segall, who plays the Skatepark of Tampa on Friday…
If you’re a Fast Times at Ridgemont High enthusiast, it’s hard not to think of iconic slacker Jeff Spicoli when interviewing Ty Segall…
Garage rocker Ty Segall fits right into a psychedelic, science-fiction landscape for the interactive video for his equally psychedelic song, “Manipulator,” which appears on his latest record of the same name…
