#2017 Ty Segall - Emotional Mugger

Fitting this was first released on VHS tapes. It's ragged, cracky, a little behind, Segall still haunted by his T. Rex project. Guitar textures remain unbeatable, but riffwise the sound crawls and wallows and slinks, everything wearing masks of itself and lurching, uncanny and distorted, ignorant of pacing's good taste. It's possibly brilliant, melted and strange, not fun exactly, the drugs tipping over into scary, best appreciated in the details and tones - the actual songs and sound Cronenberged past empathy 3.5/5