A Foul Form

Oh Sees albums often sound like lost classics from remote corners of underground rock—music as much about unearthing music as making it. Billed by singer/guitarist John Dwyer as “brain-stem-cracking scum-punk recorded tersely in the basement,” *A Foul Form* is as simple and exhilarating as its makers promise. But it’s also a reminder of how good rudimentary music can feel in the hands of a skilled band. These are songs called things like “Fucking Kill Me,” “Funeral Solution,” and “Social Butt”—and they sound like it. But they’re as catchy as Dwyer’s takes on psychedelic pop and as tightly played as his prog-metal ones, not to mention handy with fake British accents.

The prolific band returns with a brief and seething left-turn: a furious homage to the scummiest, crustiest hardcore of the early ’80s.

Californian psych-rockers Osees deliver a punk-damaged blast on their umpteenth album…

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Anger is definitely gift on the 27th album from Bay Area crossover outfit Osees

With his talent and workrate, there's nobody in psych or garage rock quite like John Dwyer. A Foul Form by OSEES is yet another hit

A Foul Form' Album by Osees album review by Robert Duguay. The band's full-length is available today via Castle Face Records and DSPs

We fucking dare you to play A Foul Form, the 26th and newest album by Osees (formerly OCS, or Thee Oh Sees, or The Oh Sees, or any of the other similarly-named permutations of the band) for any of your friends, and to see if they can accurately guess what band they’re listening to without being told.

Releasing 20-plus albums that range from garage psychedelia (Carrion Crawler/The Dream, Mutilator Defeated at Last) to prog-rock (Smote Reverser, Face Stabber) to avant-jazz (Castlemania) to spacey alt-Americana (A Weird Exits), The John Dwyer-led Thee Oh Sees, now known as Osees, seem capable of embracing any and all approaches at least proficiently, if not, as is