Sleeper (Ty Segall album)
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| Studio album by Ty Segall | ||||
| Released | August 24, 2013 | |||
| Recorded | January - March 2013; 515 National Street, San Francisco | |||
| Genre | Folk rock, psychedelic folk, Indie folk, acoustic | |||
| Length | 35:53 | |||
| Label | Drag City | |||
| Producer | Ty Segall | |||
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| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 79/100 |
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| Allmusic |   |
| The A.V. Club | A- |
| Paste Magazine | 9.3/10 |
| Pitchfork | 8.2/10 |
Sleeper is the sixth studio album by American indie rock musician Ty Segall, released on August 24, 2013 on Drag City. Recorded between January and March 2013, the album features primarily acoustic psychedelic folk compositions, and is influenced by the death of Segall's father and his subsequent estrangement from his mother.
Upon the album's release, Segall noted, "I was not in a good spot. I had been through some rough stuff, like my dad passed away, and was going through some relationship issues, too. Plus, I was having all of these awful dreams. Ones about sleep and death, and it's from there that I'd write stuff from. It's not really like what I do. It's more brutal to me."
The album is notable for being the first without a promotional single since Segall's self-titled debut album. Still, in November 2013, an official video for "The Man Man" was released.
The album was written and recorded following the death of Ty Segall's father, Brian Segall. Following the album's release, Segall noted, "It was just therapeutic, really. It just was necessary for me to put that out there, recording a song or writing it down on a piece of paper to get it out of my head and body, so I could move on to other things."
At this time, Segall became estranged from his mother, writing the track "Crazy" directly about her. Segall stated, "I hope she hears it, 'cause she needs to wake up and change what she does with her life. I'm a bit bitter about that relationship. I don't want to go into details, 'cause that's not classy. That's another reason I was like, "Should I put this out?" I'm directly calling out my mother and saying "Crazy" is about her. You only have one mother, technically, so that's pretty intense, but that's the thing. If she hears it and decides that she wants to change what she's doing with her life and wants to rethink what's going on, then there you go, that's great."
Regarding Sleeper's recording process, Segall noted, "It was like I didn't really know what I was doing. I thought at first it was all demos and then they eventually became songs. It was a lot of, "I don't know where this is going man," and then a lot of, "I don't know if people are going to dig this," and, "What is this?" and then, "Oh shit, I guess this is it." [...] I didn't set out to do an acoustic thing." Segall elaborated, "I'd record with the eight-track in my house, and then I'd go over to a friend's house and record. My friend Eric Bauer was in San Francisco, and I'd go to his house three to four times a week. It was all very available to me. It felt good, to be able to work hard and really stretch out the whole production."
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