Biography
One of the most prolific indie musicians of his generation, Ty Segall seemed to release a new album, single or EP every other week in the early years of his solo career, and that was after a stretch where he was a member of several different obscure Bay Area bands. He also released collaborations with various friends including Mikal Cronin, Sic Alps and White Fence. Born June 8, 1987 in Laguna Beach, California, Segall made his recorded debut in 2005 as the frontman of the Orange County garage-punk outfit The Epsilons. When that group split after releasing the Evil Robot (2005) EP and a self-titled 2006 album, Segall moved to San Francisco and started a solo career even while dabbling with the bands Party Fowl and The Traditional Fools. His first solo release was a cassette-only collection called Horn the Unicorn (2008), which was quickly followed by Ty Segall (2008), Lemons (2009) and Melted (2010), each of which garnered a bigger audience for Segall's British Invasion and glam rock-inspired take on DIY indie rock. An album with kindred spirit Mikal Cronin, Reverse Shark Attack (2009), was equally well received. In 2011, Cronin made the leap to a more established indie label, Drag City Records; the resulting Goodbye Bread was his first release to reach a more mainstream rock audience. Another collaborative record, Hair (2012), matched Segall with the one-man-band White Fence, whose fondness for Syd Barrett-style psychedelia was a perfect match for Segall's retro noise-pop moves. While the Drag City releases Twins (2012) and Sleeper (2013) continued Segall's flirtation with the indie-rock mainstream, the side project Slaughterhouse (2012), credited to The Ty Segall Band, was the most uncompromisingly abrasive set of songs he had yet recorded. In 2013, Segall announced a new project, Fuzz, which continued that noisy side of his musical personality with a self-titled debut album; a follow-up, Fuzz II, came out in 2015. Continuing his accelerated release schedule, Segall released the solo albums Sleeper (2013), Manipulator (2014), Emotional Mugger (2016) and the self-titled Ty Segall (2017), with each scoring higher chart placements and sales than the one before.
