Tuesday, July 14, 2015

#1801 Thee Oh Sees - Mutilator Defeated at Last

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That's the face I'm making right now, a rocknroll damnthatsnasty face getting melted off. That's an emoticon.

Thee Oh Sees teased us before - I Come From the Mountain made us crunch up our lips and noses with that pernicious little bupadup-adup-adup-adup, but the rest of Floating Coffin didn't live up to it.

But this just come out of the gate revving and revs it and revs it and revs it again, ratcheting tighter and tighter, that bass roaring, those drums clattering in hotter and hotter*, a mad squadron of clockwork crashlanding. It doesn't descend into decadent, pointless noise like so many TOS records** - it just keeps fucking ruling and ruling and ruling and ruling and ruling. One of the most immediately, relentlessly awesome records I've heard in years 5/5***

* edit: goddamn, those goddamn drums
** edit: ok Sticky Hulks / Holy Smoke is a bit of a lull
*** edit: ok, ok, drunky - it is pretty great, but 4.5/5 is probably plenty

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