Orc

AlbumAug 25 / 201710 songs, 50m 10s
Psychedelic Rock Garage Rock
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7.4 / 10

With their latest full-length, and a minor name change, John Dwyer’s garage-punk band continues to travel further toward rock’s outer limits.

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Perhaps time passes differently for John Dwyer. The Oh Sees frontman has always seemed to operate as though his days are hurtling ahead faster than for the rest of us. In 2013, he announced an indefinite hiatus for his band, only to return a year later, releasing four more studio albums in three years under the…

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Fans should be happy. Newcomers should be enthralled. Doubters should be silenced. Behold album 19 from California psych rock legends Oh Sees.

9.5 / 10

Even as they celebrate two decades as the kings of America’s psych scene, they show no signs of becoming stale.

As you might expect from the relentlessly imaginative Oh Sees, each of Orc’s songs are bursting at the seams with ideas

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John Dwyer has maintained firm artistic license over his Bay Area garage-psych outfit for the past two decades, shuffling lineups, genres an...

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Oh Sees? Thee Oh Sees? Orange County Sound? Oh, well.

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Thee Oh Sees may have changed their name to Oh Sees but their 19th album is as face-meltingly intense as many of its predecessors.

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