Ty Segall Details Emotional Mugger Release, Announces Big Tour

Photo by Ebru Yildiz

Update (3:56 p.m): There’s also a hotline up at the album’s website, which plays a creepy message from Segall when called. Check it out at 1-800-281-2968.

Earlier this week, Ty Segall and Drag City sent out a VHS tape featuring an 11-song album called Emotional Mugger. Today, Segall officially announced the album, which will be out January 22 via Drag City. (Yes, it’s coming out in non-VHS formats.) He’s also announced a giant tour; find those dates below, as well as the album art.

A press release contained the following text:

get in the booth -
 
punch in the number
 
when they pick up
 
don’t say a word
 
just listen
 
shout at the double
 
from the damned from
 
a dry throat
 
dry eye chuckle
 
insistent / elastic (but never plastic)
 
thick / butt jump pierced by
 
the kids
 
sweet angel voice sinister
 
(what are they thinking)
 
guitars sliced with scribble
 
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,
 
slowly draining away all mental life.
 
shaking ass / nihility at most corrodes
 
candy’s gone no more
 
fun

Emotional Mugger:

01 Squealer
02 California Hills
03 Emotional Mugger/Leopard Priestess
04 Breakfast Eggs
05 Diversion
06 Baby Big Man (I Want A Mommy)
07 Mandy Cream
08 Candy Sam
09 Squealer Two
10 W.U.O.T.W.S.
11 The Magazine

Ty Segall:

01-13-16 Solano Beach, CA – Belly Up Tavern *
01-15 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom
01-16 Los Angeles, CA – Teragram Ballroom *
01-18 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore *
01-19 San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore
01-21 Seattle, WA – Neptune Theatre *
01-22 Vancouver, British Columbia – Vogue Theatre *
01-23 Portland, OR – Aladdin Theatre *
02-17 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom
02-19 Austin, TX – Mohawk Outside
02-20 New Orleans, LA – One Eyed Jacks
02-21 Memphis, TN – The Hi Tone Cafe
02-22 Nashville, TN – Mercy Lounge
02-23 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse
02-24 Asheville, NC – Orange Peel
02-25 Washington, DC – 9:30 Club *
02-26 Philadelphia, PA – Trocadero Theatre *
02-27 New York, NY – Webster Hall *
02-28 New York, NY – Webster Hall
03-01 Boston, MA – Royale *
03-02-03 Montreal, Québec – Theatre Rialto *
03-04 Toronto, Ontario – Danforth Music Hall *
03-05 Detroit, MI – Majestic Theatre *
03-07 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall
03-08 Chicago, IL – Thalia Hall *
03-09 Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue and 7th Street Entry
03-10 Omaha, NE – The Waiting Room
03-11 Englewood, CO – Gothic Theatre
03-12 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge
04-29-05-01 Austin, TX – Levitation (Austin Psych Festival) at Carson Creek

* with CFM

Read our interview with Segall.

Watch him perform “Wave Goodbye” at Pitchfork Music Festival 2012:

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