Thee Oh Sees / Drop
Album: | Drop | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Thee Oh Sees | Added: | Jun 2014 | |
Label: | Castle Face Records |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2014-06-13 | Pull Date: | 2014-08-15 |
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Week Ending: | Aug 10 | Aug 3 | Jul 27 | Jul 20 | Jul 13 | Jul 6 | Jun 29 | Jun 22 |
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Airplays: | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 4 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Apr 02, 2015: | A-philiac
Transparent World, Encrypted Bounce |
4. | Jan 29, 2015: | The Sunset Life
Penetrating Eye |
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2. | Mar 30, 2015: | Shytown
Transparent World |
5. | Jan 26, 2015: | Shytown
Transparent World |
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3. | Mar 24, 2015: | Setting Fire to the Lab
Encrypted Bounce |
6. | Jan 08, 2015: | The Sunset Life
Drop |
Album Review
Wallace Brontoon
Reviewed 2014-06-13
Reviewed 2014-06-13
Former SF garage rockers and all-time KZSU faves, with a new album during their apparent non-hiatus. John Dwyer may be in LA these days, but not a major change in the sound. More cosmic bleeps and bloops, with kinda a late-60s electronic bent (a la Silver Apples/Perrey and Kingsley) but HIGH QUALITY MUSIC all over the place. No FCCs.
1. (3:23) *****Plinky spacey organs (very '60s moogy) growing fuzz wall. la-la-la-la vocals + chant deep in mix. God, that's a lot of fuzz. Spacey till the end, warpy fade.
2. (5:41) ********Crackly fuzz cyclic dramatic intro. Driving, kinda krauty. Reedy vox in clearness. Krauty groove, with weird bleepy effects. Solos are weird and solid.
3. (4:07) **Head-bobbing tick-tock guitars and drums. Doomy slow fuzzy with rattly scare sounds. Steady, methodical.
4. (2:37) **Huh, that's different-- sax and tuba or something tooting along. Swings between snotty punk and folky placid.
5. (2:30) ***Driving, loud, and sharp-edged guitar fuzz. Sharp sounding! Brief fricking song, too.
6. (3:11) *****Glammy and elegant sound. Regal. "Life is a camera..." Between cranking fuzzy garage and processional Louis XIV style, it's an odd, great sound.
7. (3:36) *****Countdown intro... more posh elder English-sounding storytelling (Syd Barrettish), with weird organ trills punctuating. Hypnotizing, calm and fuzzy as hell.
8. (3:31) *****Fuzzy FAT distortion, god, dreamy and plinky... into lush vocoder type stuff (Queeny)
9. (2:36) ****Wafty posh balladeering, folky with respectable backing string quartet. A tiny, muffled and frail trumpet solo ends it.
1. (3:23) *****Plinky spacey organs (very '60s moogy) growing fuzz wall. la-la-la-la vocals + chant deep in mix. God, that's a lot of fuzz. Spacey till the end, warpy fade.
2. (5:41) ********Crackly fuzz cyclic dramatic intro. Driving, kinda krauty. Reedy vox in clearness. Krauty groove, with weird bleepy effects. Solos are weird and solid.
3. (4:07) **Head-bobbing tick-tock guitars and drums. Doomy slow fuzzy with rattly scare sounds. Steady, methodical.
4. (2:37) **Huh, that's different-- sax and tuba or something tooting along. Swings between snotty punk and folky placid.
5. (2:30) ***Driving, loud, and sharp-edged guitar fuzz. Sharp sounding! Brief fricking song, too.
6. (3:11) *****Glammy and elegant sound. Regal. "Life is a camera..." Between cranking fuzzy garage and processional Louis XIV style, it's an odd, great sound.
7. (3:36) *****Countdown intro... more posh elder English-sounding storytelling (Syd Barrettish), with weird organ trills punctuating. Hypnotizing, calm and fuzzy as hell.
8. (3:31) *****Fuzzy FAT distortion, god, dreamy and plinky... into lush vocoder type stuff (Queeny)
9. (2:36) ****Wafty posh balladeering, folky with respectable backing string quartet. A tiny, muffled and frail trumpet solo ends it.
Track Listing
1. | Penetrating Eye | 5. | Drop | |||
2. | Encrypted Bounce | 6. | Camera (Queer Sound) | |||
3. | Savage Victory | 7. | King's Nose | |||
4. | Put Some Reverb On My Brother | 8. | Transparent World | |||
9. | The Lens |