#859 Thee Oh Sees - Putrifiers II Demos

Thee Oh Sees fans aren't exactly starved for new material: this is a reliable album-plus-a-year band, so releasing a demos album hardly seems necessary. The fact that these demos are generally just rougher versions of the originals doesn't help: there's little new-sounding here, just a more fragmented ramshackle take on the same basic sound. For what it's worth, this is actually a better album, with a scruffy, open-air Exile charm, stripping much of the reverb that made all those high harmony whines double-whiny. But then, this was one of the band's weakest albums to begin with, so take that praise with a grain of salt 3/5