Osees

A raw, noisy, over-the-top rock & roll explosion, Osees is one of the many incarnations of John Dwyer's long-running garage-punk project. Rooted in his ripsaw guitar sound, shouted vocals, and aggressive performance style, Osees is a newer, more streamlined handle for Dwyer's group, Thee Oh Sees (or just Oh Sees), their moniker(s) since 2006. Fractured psychedelic pop, confident garage rock revivalism, crushing proto-metal, dark psychedelia, and trippy prog are some of the ingredients that give their music its form and flavor. 2015's Mutilator Defeated at Last was the album where the Oh Sees' many ingredients most effectively came together before they reinvented themselves as Osees with 2020's Protean Threat, an effort that took their diverse musical obsessions and packed them into faster, louder, and (relatively) shorter sounds. As the decade progressed, the band began to integrate synthesizers into their sound more and more, on 2023's Intercepted Message edging into vintage synth pop territory, while 2024's SORCS 80 subtracted guitars from their approach entirely without sacrificing any of the band's innate punkness.

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