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| Pitchfork |
 Thee Oh Sees do not need you to keep up with them. In the last three years alone, they've released six full-lengths and a hailstorm of EPs, all of it under a maddening, search-engine confounding array of name spellings. From the OCS to the OhSees to Thee Oh Sees, John Dwyer-- the madman behind this unreasonably prolific project-- has molted band names like some rare endangered bird determined to shake off pursuers. This is catch-me-if-you-can behavior, the maneuvering of someone determined to keep things small and weird.It is also a very San Francisco-psych-band thing to do. Fellow Frisco garage-rock nerds Fresh & Onlys and Sic Alps operate at a similarly blinding pace, churning out a blizzard of new music that hits the same sweet spot over and over with single-minded fervor. For their followers, of course, there can never be enough; retro garage rock is a joyful hobbit hole unto itself, a cult that attracts new followers every year. For the unconverted, though, trying to pick through the pile of releases to determine what separates one from the next can be taxing. The result is a tight-knit community of musicians and fans hiding in plain sight, and one has to presume they like it that way....full text |
| Thequietus |
| Working with Thee Oh Sees front-man John Dwyer must be something of a double-edged sword for musicians. On the one hand, band members must be rubbing their hands gleefully at the prospect of another pay-day (not that bands this size ever really make any real profit, of course). On the other hand, their leader cranks out so much material that he must have them working – if not in the studio then playing live – seven days a week. Since 1997, Dwyer has fronted or played in at least a dozen bands, most notably Pink And Brown, Coachwhips and the Hospitals, and his latest release, Warm Slime, will be the eleventh full-length album to fall under the umbrella of Thee Oh Sees project. His band-mates must consider him a pretty hard task-master....full text |
| Kqed |
| Whatever you want to call them, at present they prefer Thee Oh Sees, but that's really subject to change at any moment (they've been The Ohsees, OCS, Orange County Sound and Orinoka Crash Suite in the past), one thing you have to appreciate about the San Francisco band is the sheer volume of their work. They produce the kind of hyperactive, reverb-bleeding garage rock that you want to listen to turned all the way up to 11. And they produce a lot of it. Warm Slime, out Tuesday, May 11, 2010, is the band's eleventh full-length album (that number doesn't include an additional six EPs and seven 7-inches). With that much music to their name, Thee Oh Sees have certainly earned the right to call themselves whatever they want. The band started life as an experimental outlet for lead singer John Dwyer, who has fronted a number of other projects, including Pink and Brown and the Coachwhips, and it continues to push itself to occupy different musical spaces. The band has taken a variety of forms over the years, but it currently consists of four members -- Dwyer, who plays guitar and provides the majority of the (largely unintelligible) vocals, Brigid Dawson, who contributes supporting vocals and plays the keyboard, Petey Dammit on guitar, and Mike Shoun on drums. Like the band itself, their eleventh studio-album is something of a shape-shifter. It opens with a title track that clocks in at an impressive thirteen minutes and thirty seconds. "Warm Slime" starts with a whistle, before descending with a crash into two buzzy guitar-driven minutes, punctured at intervals with a howling refrain. Around minute three it begins to slow, elements gradually fading into the background until there is only a whispery chant to a soft tapping. The song picks up again, slows again, picks up again, slows it down once more -- all the while treating the listener to a rollicking, detail-filled aural experience....full text |
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