Flash back, to a time of big men and bigger babies! January, 2016. The times: scary. Tomorrow: kiss it goodbye. This was the headspace for Emotional Mugger’s necksnapping sketch when it dropped that very month those ten fateful years ago. "LIVE" "AT" "THE" "BBC", out January 30, pulls the mask back over our eyes and transports us to their Marc Riley session for the BBC: fifty shows into a furious tour, with a five-headed monstrosity fully backing Ty. Hear their live version of “Candy Sam” today!

Off the back of 2014’s expansive Manipulator and the months of touring that followed, Ty was down to party with whatever extreme, flipped-script scene came welling up through him. Emotional Mugger, its forked tongue stuffed in deep cheek, landed the jump, featuring eleven of the most rancid & monstrous cuts in the Segall catalog — EVEN AS OF TODAY — sequenced, as ever, with an almost mystic third eye/ear predilection for the immaculate distribution of album gravity. Ty played most parts on the album, with some drop-ins from close associates: Wand’s Cory Hanson and Evan Burrows, The Cairo Gang’s Emmett Kelly, Mikal Cronin and King Tuff himself, Kyle Thomas. The vibes were so right with this crew, he dubbed them The Muggers, stretched a rubber baby mask over his head, and they all hit the road all over the US and Europe. That’s when "LIVE" "AT" "THE" "BBC" happened.

Here, Ty leads the charge: vocals only, his pipes deeply tanned, but otherwise unfettered from their nightly regimen. Hammering out a nineteen minute slice of their regular show, he & The Muggers’ free spirits can be heard in EVERY SINGLE MOMENT, with special weirdness coming whenever Cory, Emmett, Mikal and Kyle all chip in on backing vocals. The room feels like barely enough to contain all their shit as they smash through four choice Emotional Mugger cuts and one ostensible finger-in-the-eye, their telescoped take-out of The Doors’ “L.A. Woman.” Undeniably hot stuff!

What took us so long to get this out? Who knows, maybe the etching? That’s right, one side of the vinyl has all the music, the other side’s got a rendering of the babyman mask that’s haunted so many punters over long nights of the soul since then. Relive the emotional mugging once more with "LIVE" "AT" "THE" "BBC" on January 30, 2026, and see Ty Segall on tour across the US and Australia next spring! Full tour dates HERE.