Thee Oh Sees have a massacre of frustrating albums in their wake (especially Floating Coffin and Putrifiers II) that start strong and unravel into wistful meandering. After the relentless guitarmageddon of Orc, it's inevitable the pendulum would swing back: here's a whole record of wandering freak-folk psychedelia.
That sound's never been their strongest suit, but it at least works better as an albumlong commitment. Memory of a Cut Off Head's a baroque, morbid simmerer, riding slow waves of energy, swirling around a drain of bloody anxiety. It's unique, strange, interesting, occaisionally beautiful - but detached, and never especially enjoyable 3/5
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