Manipulator is merely his seventh official solo studio album since 2008, which seems positively parsimonious until you consider the 17 other albums released in various guises, as well as countless singles and EPs with the likes of Epsilons, Party Fowl, the Traditional Fools, the Perverts, Sic Alps and Fuzz. Whatever else one might say about Segall, there's no doubting his work ethic. And, like Pollard, the four Ps loom large in his life – this is a man, Wikipedia tells us, whose "main and sometimes only pedal is a Death by Audio Fuzz War pedal.
The clarion call/siren sound of his guitar…the helium-steamed ride of the vocals…track after track, releasing the thought that have been holding us down, all in the name of getting higher on pop songs. Why have one when you can have two? It's a big world, and Manipulator has only begun to fight.