Pitchfork reviews Thee Oh Sees’ Floating Coffin
“…It also illustrates that there’s no pre-established blueprint for an Oh Sees album, which means there’s no telling what’s next. As usual, that’s an exciting prospect…”
“…It also illustrates that there’s no pre-established blueprint for an Oh Sees album, which means there’s no telling what’s next. As usual, that’s an exciting prospect…”
“The band played a forceful bunch of songs — at least judging by the four final ones that I saw — that drove the tightly focused, crowd-surfing fans to adrenaline levels unimaginable the morning earlier…”
“But one aspect that’s often overlooked is that Thee Oh Sees mastermind John Dwyer plays a mean flute…”
“…all gorgeous harmonies and palette-cleansing strings, demonstrates a band in charge of its own weird, fuzzy destiny…”
“Frontman John Dwyer licked the mic and wielded his guitar like a bazooka, then he spotted fellow Bay Area groovie Ty Segall in the front row of the VIP section and demanded he join the band onstage…”
“The dominant mode is galloping, double-drummered, overdriven but super-tight ramalam…”
“It’s a song slathered in acid-burnt fuzz where Presley stretches out with an echoing psych guitar solo after hammering out a simple, solid power chord hook…”
“Thee Oh Sees are set to release Floating Coffin, the follow-up to 2012′s Putrifiers II, next week…”
New album from Thee Oh Sees, Floating Coffin, streaming on Pitchfork Advance.
“Given the maturity and insight of White Fence’s previous releases and his collaborations with it-boy Ty Segall, it shouldn’t shock anyone that the act’s newest record, Cyclops Reap, is quite brilliant…”
White Fence’s new album Cyclops Reap is streaming on Pitchfork Advance.
“His follow-up, ‘Cyclops Reap’, keeps the party going…”
“Tim Presley doesn’t seem to be running out of songs and this is another quality batch of paisley-scented psychedelia…
“…Death By Audio has announced the Sunshine Reverberation effects pedal, which is inspired by Ty Segall…”
“… Yes, the New Orleans ambassadors of down ‘n’ dirty “swamp tech” are on the bill for something called the New Orleans Bingo! Show, which also features the Preservation Hall Jazz Band…”
“The husband and wife duo, born Robert Rolston and Panacea Theriac, will bring their gritty and distorted swamp-tech to Club Downunder on Tuesday, April 9…”
“The husband and wife duo, born Robert Rolston and Panacea Theriac, will bring their gritty and distorted swamp-tech to Club Downunder on Tuesday, April 9…”
“Relentless, powerful, tight: This San Francisco psychedelic guitar band Thee showcases its wild, spastic rock on “Floating Coffin,” its seventh record…”
“White Fence is hardly the first band to dabble in the Beatles discography, but for the first time, it feels like they are expanding on the sound rather than simply copying it…”
“Needless to say, it was an epic finale, capped off with the band’s typical closer “Still Together,” during which fans literally busted out their lighters, a classic concert tradition that I haven’t witnessed in almost ten years…”
“Mr. Quintron is an American institution, a testament to all that is great in New Orleans music AND the most wigged out fringes of the avant-garde…”
“Mr. Quintron is an American institution, a testament to all that is great in New Orleans music AND the most wigged out fringes of the avant-garde…”
Photos from Mac DeMarco, Phoenix show at The Independent.
“Not that he needs any more accolades, as there are about to be a ton coming down on MCII, but the album is a pretty hefty jump from Cronin’s debut.”
“Two years ago he celebrated the vinyl lovers’ holiday by sharing the Ty Rex EP, a six-song set of T. Rex covers done in the lo-fi jangly San Francisco style we’ve come to hold so dear…”
“As SPIN’s David Bevan wrote in his cover profile of Ty Segall last fall, the San Franciscan garage-punk cyclone’s newly formed outfit is so aptly named, it’s a wonder someone didn’t beat them to it. As Fuzz, Segall and his former Epsilons pals — Roland Cosio (bass) and Charlie Mootheart (guitar) — are a well-oiled […]
“Thee Oh Sees have given us a video for their song “Minotaur,” a track off of this year’s Floating Coffin. The video, directed by band members John Dwyer and John Harlow, follows a day in the life of a mythical minotaur. This beast is as ordinary as the rest of us: he watches TV, punches […]
“Thee Oh Sees are set to release new LP Floating Coffins later this month and have given visuals to its first single “Minotaur.”…”
“”Weight,” the excellent track that kicks off San Francisco garage-pop hellraiser Mikal Cronin’s second solo album MCII (out May 7 on Merge), is about waking up on the morning you’ve vowed to turn over a new leaf but lacking the motivation– or maybe the good night’s sleep– to actually make the change…”
“Cronin’s accustomed to whipping up a frantic sonic storm as a sideman, but his solo work is more winsomely melodic and carefully crafted. “Don’t Let Me Go” and the aptly titled “Piano Mantra” are lovely and lilting, while “I’m Done Running from You” and “Am I Wrong” burst with giddy rhythm, high harmonies, crisp guitars, […]