A Weird Exits
Emerging from the distant light we have a new double LP from our own John Dwyer's Thee Oh Sees. The first studio recordings to capture the muscular rhythm section of double drummers Ryan Moutinho and Dan Rincon with ringer bassist Tim Hellman cracking spines, the groove and bludgeon we've come to expect from the live shows is captured seamlessly here - they go from zero to head-splitter from the get-go and on the rare occasions they do let up on the gas a bit, we're treated to some locked-in hypnotizers, too. The guitar sounds more colossal and ethereal at the same time, riding roughshod over the vacuum sealed rhythm section, spiraling skywards, and diving into the emerald depths so quick your guts tingle. Synths, strings and smoke soaked things crawl behind the scenes to make an extra far-out party platter.
On their latest, Thee Oh Sees show an eagerness to drift away from their foundational ’60s psych-pop and garage-punk roots into more cosmic realms.
Californian psychedelic kingpins 11th album is a creepy 38-minute prang out that can't find its true voice due to a constant struggle for breath.
Armed with two drummers and a renewed appetite for experimentation, Thee Oh Sees are at their most mind melting on A Weird…
It's been nearly 20 years of fuzz and frenzied freak-outs and relentlessly energetic live shows, but Thee Oh Sees continue to bring it, hard...
There are few more reliably exhilarating sounds in contemporary garage rock than this.
'A Weird Exits' by Thee Oh Sees, album review by Matthew Wardell. The LP comes out on August 5th, on Castle Face. Thee Oh Sees, play 9/2 in London, England.