Drop

Less than five months after frontman John Dwyer told an audience at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall that they wouldn’t be seeing the band in action for a while, Thee Oh Sees have reemerged with their eighth full-length record in six years. Drop turns out to be the next logical step in the progression undertaken on 2013’s Floating Coffin and 2012’s Putrifiers II.

From the very first "Sweat Leaf"-channeling fuzz riff, there's no question what's being "dropped" on this latest dispatch…

For a band who've built a career out of letting their collective freak flag fly, Thee Oh Sees seem to be purposefully inching toward something resembling normality.

With rumours of a split now thankfully put to bed, John Dwyer and pals get back to doing what they do best: making ear-splitting garage rock that feels like the greatest idea anyone’s ever had.

The eighth studio record from this niche but alluring band fairly scampers along, writes <strong>Kitty Empire</strong>

<p>John Dwyer and cohorts give up on their supposed hiatus to drop off another set of beautifully broad-palette modern psychedelia, writes <strong>Tom Hughes</strong></p>