Ty Segall has devoted much of his career to finding the sloppy, fiery magic that can happen when a group of people play loud rock music in a room together. But his greatest triumph to date came when he ditched just about everyone else and made himself sound like a band. Segall recorded almost everything on his massive double album Manipulator himself. Along the way, he learned some new tricks: Conjuring grandeur with walloping choruses, injecting syncopation into his riff-rock onslaught, turning his howl into a potent glam-rock falsetto. And he did all this, miraculously, without losing the go-for-broke live-band immediacy that made him a force in the first place. Stay out of this guy’s way. –Tom [LISTEN]