Drop: Vinyl LP Oh Sees

Since the release of The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth
Spending a Night In announced a new loud era (and excepting a
few momentary detours into home-baked territory—Dog Poison
and Castlemania, for example), Dwyer and company have pummeled
a bit harder each time out, cementing their reputation as a
live force to be reckoned with and leaving legions sweaty and
bruised in the process. Late last year, after years of relentlessly
touring the world, the word got out… Dwyer’s moving to Los
Angeles (fear not, still California!) and Thee Oh Sees are taking
a much-needed hiatus with a shifting of gears ahead and a new
album on the way. This is that album.

Drop was recorded in a banana-ripening warehouse (no joke)
with hair-farming studio warlock Chris Woodhouse playing
drums; it’s also graced with the presence of talented gurus Mikal
Cronin, Greer McGettrick and Casafis adding horns and
vocals. The result pushes the familiar polarities of the group farther
outward than ever before. Opener “Penetrating Eye” might
be the heaviest Oh Sees song yet, “Transparent World” and “Put
Some Reverb On My Brother” foam with seasick fuzz, and yet
the ballads, like the harpsichorded “King’s Nose” and the lush
and stately closer “The Lens,” extend their oeuvre into mellotronic,
far-out pop with delicacy and grace.

This schizophrenia heralds the man and the band into an unseen
future in classic Dwyer fashion—restless energy harnessed
into exquisitely crafted jams, with an emphasis on the pensive
and the paranoid in turns.

“Hiatus? What hiatus? The California psych-rock crew are back already with their most coherent album in ages” – Time Out

“Oscillating garage-rock weirdness from West Coast psychonaut” – Mojo

“The various sides of Thee Oh Sees – the world-beatingly loud’n’fast live garage band; the swirlier, prettier home-taped psych-pop solo project; the synth-kraut-spacerock explorers – are comprehensively represented on Drop, and amen to that” – The Guardian

Tracklisting
1. Penetrating Eye
2. Encrypted Bounce
3. Savage Victory
4. Put Some Reverb On My Brother
5. Drop
6. Camera (Queer Sound)
7. King’s Nose
8. Transparent World
9. The Lens