Ty Segall Mails VHS Tape Featuring New Album Emotional Mugger
Ty Segall‘s got a lot of projects lined up as of late. In addition to dropping a new record with Fuzz, he recently formed a new band called GØGGS and released the single “She Got Harder”. He’s also got another new band and a collection of T. Rex covers on the way. And now, it looks like he’s getting ready to release a new solo album. We received a VHS tape in the mail from Drag City featuring an 11-track collection by “Ty Garrett Segall” called Emotional Mugger. Find the tracklist below.
The video begins with a classic Columbia Tristar Home Video opening that says, “Coming Soon to a Theater Near You.” Then, the screen goes glitchy as the record plays for about 40 minutes. When the album ends, the 1993 film My Life plays. (Another copy we received featured Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. Another editor received a dubbed Blockbuster video.)
There’s no word on a release date (on VHS or other…more conventional formats). Update (11/09, 11:05 p.m.): EmotionalMugger.com now has a goofy new promotional video where Segall plays a doctor.
Here’s the statement that accompanied the video on a crumpled-up sheet of paper:
What is emotional mugging?
Emotional mugging is a psychoanalytic subject to subject exchange formed as a response to our hyper-digital sexual landscape.
The over communication relayed in cell based technology and content driven media further detaches passengers of our modern society from deep emotional understanding. These detached residents seek meaning and physical contact which is readily available via traditional social standards often displaced thru the lens of the modern id. These individuals turn to salutation based sexual exchange and solo vice in return for a confirmation of non-emotion. This state of being that is well considered normal in our modern society is riddled with denial depravity and causes destruction on both the internal and external levels.
EM is an unfortunate but tragically essential practice in the age of digital intimacy. Essentially “mugging” is non verbal and non-physical emotional exchange, regardless of the status of the mugger and the muggee. Mugging can help to fill the holes in our ego, and the gaps in our society.
Unlike traditional mugging EM is a victimful crime wherein both the perpetrator and subject are victims of their emotional purpose whether the ego intention is subversive or provocative.
Sexual response has been common for both roles and have often led to meaningful non physical sexual relations.Visit emotionalmugger.com
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
Read our interview with Segall.
Watch him perform “Wave Goodbye” at Pitchfork Music Festival 2012:
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