This album and tour feel like a direct response to that record- a chance to shed the pressures of following up that album’s success with a brash and often silly new sound and persona. The baby imagery is appropriate, since Emotional Mugger is basically a long temper tantrum of an album, filled with spastic and chaotic tracks of abrasive noise rock-a huge departure from the glam rock of Segall’s last LP, 2014’s epic Manipulator. Crying baby tracks played between songs, adding to the infantile motif, which brought to mind something akin to a nightmarish Eraserhead rock opera. Segall spent a bulk of the set in a creepy rubber baby mask, yelling nonsensical odes to eggs while whipping a giant umbilical chord around his neck. The absurdly proficient rocker is on tour behind his latest LP, Emotional Mugger, which has him backed by the Muggers band (featuring frequent collaborators Mikal Cronin and King Tuff), for an over-the-top assault on the senses that is as perplexing as it is exciting. Ty Segall live at The Rialton in Montreal, Ma(photo by Jason Hughes).

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