LP – Black Vinyl (2025 Repress).

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 andultimatelyexhausting 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 theyve released since 2004 possesses a distinct personality and represents a different point along the path of JOHN DWYERs 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 andto their great creditit takes several songs before youre convinced its Thee Oh Sees. The seasick hundred-bottles-of-rum shanty What the Driven Drink, from 2007s delirious Sucks Blood exists in a different galaxy than the rollercoastering Chem-Farmer from last years 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.

Tracklist:

A1. I Come From The Mt.
A2. Toe Cutter / Thumb Buster
A3. Floating Coffin
A4. No Spell
A5. Strawberries 1+2

B1. Maze Fancier
B2. Night Crawler
B3. Sweets Helicopter
B4. Tunnel Time
B5. Minotaur