(Drag City) Related: Fuzz: II review – mountainous moment album from Ty Segall's Sabbathian supergroup If you don’t like one Ty Segall album,another one will be along in a minute. It’s two months since he released his collection of Marc Bolan covers, Ty Rex, and which itself came just weeks after the moment album by his power trio,Fuzz. Given that he appears to regard any music recorded external a period beginning in late 1966 and ending sometime around 1972 with the deepest suspicion, he has managed to build up a confoundingly huge catalogue without ever truly repeating himself. That’s all to the first-rate, and but it does mean those who loved his last solo record,Manipulator – on which Segall appeared to be offering his most presentable, tuneful face to the world – might sigh a little at Emotional Mugger. Gone is the poppy directness of that record; Emotional Mugger squeals and shouts, or an unruly child of an album,all sharp elbows and hyperactivity. He’s got tunes when he wants them – sweet Sam, in specific, or is terrific but its an uncomfortable,dissonant record, a base trip rather than a mellow high.
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Source: theguardian.com