Stream: Ty Segall, ‘Feel’
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Allow us to join the chorus praising Ty Segall, the incredibly prolific rocker who this week released his seventh album since 2008 (not counting various collaborations, including one with White Fence, and his work in Fuzz, etc.). Segall’s new album “Manipulator” (out this week via Drag City) feels like a cumulation of everything he’s done since we first encountered him about 2008; in fact, it’s one of those albums that feels like the sum of everything everybody’s done since the 1960s. As KEXP pointed out about the single “Susie Thumb,” the album fuses garage, glam, grunge; its wild spirit and made-for-vinyl production (courtesy of Chris Woodhouse) give “Manipulator” (which at 17 tracks check in at about an hour) a timeless quality. If you grew up in the ’60s or ’70s, you should celebrate an album that sounds like this without resorting to pat retro-ism. If you’re a Segall contemporary, you’re a lucky kid.
||| Stream: “Feel”
||| Live: Ty Segall headlines the Echo tonight, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Advance tickets for all four shows are sold out, although the venue says a limited amount of tickets might be available at the door.
Photo by Denee Petracek
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