“Manipulator represents the inevitable pause from Ty Segall's usual breakneck pace, its 17-song, double-album sprawl the product of an unprecedented (for him) 14-month writing process. The extra attention to detail is felt on every song here.”
“Ty Segall started off as one of the leading lights of San Francisco's 2000s garage-rock scene, but as he releases his seventh solo album, the label hardly still applies. Late-Sixties styles trump Segall's usual brand of offbeat hard rock here, and if there's anything garage about Manipulator, it's the unbridled energy running through some of its best tracks. While the songs with more muscle hit ha”
