Thee Oh Sees / Castlemania
Album: | Castlemania | Collection: | General | |
Artist: | Thee Oh Sees | Added: | Aug 2011 | |
Label: | In the Red Records |
A-File Activity
Add Date: | 2011-08-07 | Pull Date: | 2011-10-09 |
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Week Ending: | Oct 9 | Oct 2 | Sep 25 | Sep 18 | Sep 11 | Sep 4 | Aug 28 | Aug 21 |
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Airplays: | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 |
Recent Airplay
1. | Apr 27, 2024: | Vinyls from the Attic
Spider Cider |
4. | Dec 14, 2018: | KZSU FRIENDS OF SCOTT MOULTON
I Wont Hurt You |
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2. | Dec 16, 2023: | Vinyls from the Attic
Spider Cider |
5. | Apr 23, 2015: | The Sunset Life
I Need Seed |
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3. | May 24, 2019: | KZSU Central: The Relatively Round Table
I Need Seed, I Wont Hurt You |
6. | May 08, 2014: | The Sunset Life
Stinking Cloud |
Album Review
Your Imaginary Friend
Reviewed 2011-08-02
Reviewed 2011-08-02
Thee Oh Sees: Local psyche’sters: Strange bent vocs, sarcastic almost, over psyche that veers into retro a tad but not too much. Fuzzed guitars, jangle, tambourine, but an overall heaviness somehow. Male vocs mostly but also female. Restrained production, not so much low-fi as distant. Not put through a reverb tank or heavily echo’ed, but just trippy. Barrett era Pink Floyd meets the Partridge Family, 13th Floor Elevators, later Nikki Sudden. Play with Syd Barrett. Great stuff.
1) (2:56) bouncy psyche pop, twisted like Syd Barrett, peppy like Partridge Family
2) (2:13) silly feel w/ flutes, upbeat
3) (3:11) dissonant flutes, brass, bouncy feel contrasts, strange
4) (2:08) driving almost punky with skronky horns
5-6) (both 2:42) tambourine, fuzzy guits, driving feel makes them very late 60’s, track 5 is more upbeat poppy, 6 darker
7) (0:56) bent strange brief
8) (2:27) upbeat, strange, dense
9) (2:18) dreamy synth, upbeat, interesting percussion and guitar
10) (2:31) soaring searing guit,, upbeat driving
11) (3:03) upbeat, jangly
12) (1:28) messed up intro, jangly fun smacks of Neutral Milk Hotel
13) (3:52) experimental: fluty synths, Beatles’esque ambience meets The Residents, careful! A good 30 secs of dead air at end
14) (2:30) chill, different w/ fem vocals over minimal percussion and synth
15) (3:35) slower jangle ballad
16) (3:22) darker strummy with distant fem vocs psyche
1) (2:56) bouncy psyche pop, twisted like Syd Barrett, peppy like Partridge Family
2) (2:13) silly feel w/ flutes, upbeat
3) (3:11) dissonant flutes, brass, bouncy feel contrasts, strange
4) (2:08) driving almost punky with skronky horns
5-6) (both 2:42) tambourine, fuzzy guits, driving feel makes them very late 60’s, track 5 is more upbeat poppy, 6 darker
7) (0:56) bent strange brief
8) (2:27) upbeat, strange, dense
9) (2:18) dreamy synth, upbeat, interesting percussion and guitar
10) (2:31) soaring searing guit,, upbeat driving
11) (3:03) upbeat, jangly
12) (1:28) messed up intro, jangly fun smacks of Neutral Milk Hotel
13) (3:52) experimental: fluty synths, Beatles’esque ambience meets The Residents, careful! A good 30 secs of dead air at end
14) (2:30) chill, different w/ fem vocals over minimal percussion and synth
15) (3:35) slower jangle ballad
16) (3:22) darker strummy with distant fem vocs psyche
Track Listing
1. | I Need Seed | 9. | The Whipping Continues | |||
2. | Corprophagist | 10. | Blood On The Deck | |||
3. | (A Bath Perhaps) | 11. | Castlemania | |||
4. | Stinking Cloud | 12. | Aa Warm Breeze | |||
5. | Corrupted Coffin | 13. | Idea For Rubber Dog | |||
6. | Pleasure Blimps | 14. | The Was Lost | |||
7. | A Wall, A Century 2 | 15. | I Wont Hurt You | |||
8. | Spider Cider | 16. | If I Stay Too Long |