Thee Oh Sees: Floating Coffin (Vinyl LP)
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*We all know the type: prolific bands that commit every loose thought, stray idea and 90-second song fragment to tape. Bands that pay no attention to little inconveniences like release cycles or self-editing, and instead decide that quantity equals quality, creating a discography more labyrinthine, imposing and-ultimately-exhausting than the cast of creatures in a sci-fi novel. Here is why none of that applies to THEE OH SEES. Because each of the dozen-plus albums they've released since 2004 possesses a distinct personality and represents a different point along the path of JOHN DWYER's slow transformation from auteur of woozy, bare-bones four-track psychedelia to goggle-eyed garage rock marauder backed at long last by a band that both shares and stokes his singular vision. Because drop a needle on any record and-to their great credit-it takes several songs before you're convinced it's Thee Oh Sees. The seasick hundred-bottles-of-rum shanty What the Driven Drink, from 2007's delirious Sucks Blood exists in a different galaxy than the rollercoastering Chem-Farmer from last year's Carrion Crawler / The Dream; the doomy doo-wop of Blood on the Deck hardly seems like the product of the same band that delivered the yelping Ruby Go Home in 2009. 1. I Come from the Mountain, 2. Toe Cutter / Thumb Buster, 3. the Floating Coffin, 4. No Spell, 5. Strawberries 1+2, 6. Maze Fancier, 7. Night Crawler, 8. Sweets Helicopter, 9. Tunnel Time, 10. Minotaur
*We all know the type: prolific bands that commit every loose thought, stray idea and 90-second song fragment to tape. Bands that pay no attention to little inconveniences like release cycles or self-editing, and instead decide that quantity equals quality, creating a discography more labyrinthine, imposing and-ultimately-exhausting than the cast of creatures in a sci-fi novel. Here is why none of that applies to THEE OH SEES. Because each of the dozen-plus albums they've released since 2004 possesses a distinct personality and represents a different point along the path of JOHN DWYER's slow transformation from auteur of woozy, bare-bones four-track psychedelia to goggle-eyed garage rock marauder backed at long last by a band that both shares and stokes his singular vision. Because drop a needle on any record and-to their great credit-it takes several songs before you're convinced it's Thee Oh Sees. The seasick hundred-bottles-of-rum shanty What the Driven Drink, from 2007's delirious Sucks Blood exists in a different galaxy than the rollercoastering Chem-Farmer from last year's Carrion Crawler / The Dream; the doomy doo-wop of Blood on the Deck hardly seems like the product of the same band that delivered the yelping Ruby Go Home in 2009. 1. I Come from the Mountain, 2. Toe Cutter / Thumb Buster, 3. the Floating Coffin, 4. No Spell, 5. Strawberries 1+2, 6. Maze Fancier, 7. Night Crawler, 8. Sweets Helicopter, 9. Tunnel Time, 10. Minotaur