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graffiti sprawled across the hemispheres; stuttered, stunted, dual-mono machine dreams flashing sudden stereophobic and back again / two screens alone together
squeezing shaking oozing metallic pool like brain blood,
First Listen: Ty Segall, 'Emotional Mugger' By DOUG MOSUROCK • 8 MINUTES AGO
Barreling on after a non-stop flurry of activity over the past eight years, Ty Segall is dropping his 10th solo album in the dead of winter, its cover depicting a Xeroxed baby head as it peers out of the fold amid a field of toner-black gradients. Staring into that disquieting image is adequate preparation for Emotional Mugger, which feels as fractured and delirious as anything he's recorded.
Segall's last solo album, Manipulator, showcased both polish and conceptual harmony that seemed inevitable, given the directions the garage-rock wunderkind was heading. But it would appear now that Segall wants to run screaming in the opposite direction, crawl directly into listener's minds and do some rewiring. The pop hooks, fuzz guitar and Anglicized vocals fans expect are all here, but Segall seems indifferent to his own playbook, throwing in corkscrews of weirdness like elbows to the head whenever he feels like it.
"Squealer" changes fidelity midstream, while synthesized counter-melodies draw tracers around the lopsided title track, all to a mid-tempo thump that corrals the brightness of Segall's earlier works into a medicated snarl. Recalling the heavier work of his band Fuzz, "Diversion" pairs its catchiness with force engineered to blow your hair back; Segall turns an unusually sweet corner with the aptly titled "Candy Sam," even employing a small children's choir to sing the chorus. If you've ever wondered how Segall might channel the early, risk-taking triumphs of Beck, much of the evidence is right here.
Throughout this reinvention, many signposts of compatriots' work surface. The whole of Emotional Mugger seems closer to the paisley abandon of White Fence — and the bizarre, druggy pulse of Segall's proteges in WAND — than even his own fractured earlier works might indicate. But Emotional Mugger exists more as a head trip than any stab at continuity and making friends. It's a wild, twisted ride into and out of Segall's psyche — the sound of a restless mind attempting to turn itself inside out.
FANATICS! A FEW WORDS ABOUT MY LATE FRIEND, DRUMMER JASON MACKENROTH By Henry Rollins
RADIO BROADCAST #354 01–10–16
Fanatic. On the third of January, Jason Mackenroth, drummer in Mother Superior, Rollins Band and Blue Man Group passed away after a long battle with cancer. He was a good man and left too early. I was lucky enough to speak with him a few days before he died. It was good to have the chance to hear his voice one last time. I will really miss him.
We have assembled a great batch of songs here. We would like to thank Ty Segall for sending us an advance of his excellent new album, Emotional Mugger, dropping on Jan. 22, on Drag City. I have listened to it a few times now and can safely say, the man has done it again. He has tour dates all over the place. I will be reading them off on upcoming shows.
Also, prepare yourself for a lot of great new records on the In the Red label to rock upcoming shows. Charles Moothart, the blazing guitar player in Fuzz, has a solo album, Still Life of Citrus & Slime, coming out later this year on ITR. We have it and have been given the green light to start playing it. We kick in with all that on Jan. 31.
It’s going to be a good year for records and shows. We are allied with a lot of excellent labels, which will be keeping us in the loop on what’s happening, and we will be bringing whatever we can to you as soon as possible.
If you feel like it, you can help the Mackenroth family via GoFundMe.
Hang in there and stay fanatic. –– Henry
Hour 1 01. Joy Division — Digital / Substance 02. W-X - Clean It Glen / W-X 03. Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band — Humanoid Boogie 04. Family Fodder — Chocolate / More Great Hits! 05. The Fall — Inevitable (live XFM Radio 4-14-99 / The Marshall Suite 06. Ty Segall — Squealer / Emotional Mugger 07 Yoshito Murakami — Sayonara…Mataitsuka / Mu To Eien 08. Zeahorse — Pow Wow / Rice Is Nice Mixtape Vol. 03 09. Scientist — Steppers / Introducing Scientist 10. Le Butcherettes — Sold Less Than Gold / A Raw Youth 11. Spectres — Mirror / Dying 12. Selda — Yaz Gazeteci Yaz / Selda 13. Los Vigilantes — La Balada / Globule Expectorations 14. Division Four — Kamikarzi / 1983 Demo 15. Hierophants — Eighty Zer-0 / Hierophants / Parallax Error
Hour 2 01. Kim & Leanne — ScienceTest / True West 02. Ruined Fortune — On The Screen / Ruined Fortune 03. Ausmuteants — Mates Rates / single on Hozac 04. Brown Spiders — That was Then This Is Now 05. Chicos de Nazca — All The Wishes / Fireride 06. Tomorrow — Hallucinations / Tomorrow 07. Oliver Nelson — Night Lights / More Blues And The Abstract Truth 08. Nini Raviolette -— Suis Je Normale / So Young But So Cold 09. Alan Vega Trio — Too Late / Cubist Blues 10. Pumice — Why I Chew My Sleeves / Puddles 11. Nate Young — Forever Day / Blinding Confusion 12. Tired Lion — I Don't Think You Like Me / Rice Is Nice Mixtape Vol. 03 13. Frank Zappa — Black Beauty / Mystery Disc
First Listen: Ty Segall, 'Emotional Mugger' By DOUG MOSUROCK • 8 MINUTES AGO
Barreling on after a non-stop flurry of activity over the past eight years, Ty Segall is dropping his 10th solo album in the dead of winter, its cover depicting a Xeroxed baby head as it peers out of the fold amid a field of toner-black gradients. Staring into that disquieting image is adequate preparation for Emotional Mugger, which feels as fractured and delirious as anything he's recorded.
Segall's last solo album, Manipulator, showcased both polish and conceptual harmony that seemed inevitable, given the directions the garage-rock wunderkind was heading. But it would appear now that Segall wants to run screaming in the opposite direction, crawl directly into listener's minds and do some rewiring. The pop hooks, fuzz guitar and Anglicized vocals fans expect are all here, but Segall seems indifferent to his own playbook, throwing in corkscrews of weirdness like elbows to the head whenever he feels like it.
"Squealer" changes fidelity midstream, while synthesized counter-melodies draw tracers around the lopsided title track, all to a mid-tempo thump that corrals the brightness of Segall's earlier works into a medicated snarl. Recalling the heavier work of his band Fuzz, "Diversion" pairs its catchiness with force engineered to blow your hair back; Segall turns an unusually sweet corner with the aptly titled "Candy Sam," even employing a small children's choir to sing the chorus. If you've ever wondered how Segall might channel the early, risk-taking triumphs of Beck, much of the evidence is right here.
Throughout this reinvention, many signposts of compatriots' work surface. The whole of Emotional Mugger seems closer to the paisley abandon of White Fence — and the bizarre, druggy pulse of Segall's proteges in WAND — than even his own fractured earlier works might indicate. But Emotional Mugger exists more as a head trip than any stab at continuity and making friends. It's a wild, twisted ride into and out of Segall's psyche — the sound of a restless mind attempting to turn itself inside out.
There are some real gems here. Probably his wiggiest album? Heaps of experimentation in terms of arrangements and sounds. I'm digging the second half more than the first at the moment but I think that might change over time.
likes rhythmic things that butt up against each other
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It's by far his weirdest. I love it. King Tuff rules on this record. The band is tight as fuck, and that performance on KEXP was fucking insane! I saw a few of these song played acoustically and it's amazing what they turned into. The guy is a freak.
Squealer I and II California Hills Emotional Mugger Candy Sam Mandy Cream
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My local record stores still don't have the new album in yet, and Amazon is on backorder here in Canada Streamed it a couple times and liked what I heard generally, I think it would get better with repeated listens.
I'm going to see him for the first time in March in Toronto. Have been a big fan of his for a few years but I am really not digging this baby shtick that he has going for this tour sans guitar
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Streamed it a couple times and liked what I heard generally, I think it would get better with repeated listens.