A return to form! This is Thee Oh Sees at their best, full of splintering energy, huge swooping guitars, chaotic and skitterey beats. As on Carrion Crawler / The Dream, the band's secret weapon is Petey Dammit, whose rollicking basslines are a live wire whipping through the songs, jerking them in oddball directions and giving them uncanny fast-zombie energy. I Come from the Mountain, in particular, is a bracing, toofast, holyshit opener in the spirit of Debaser, Here's Your Future, and Grown Men Don't Fall in the River Just Like That.
Each song is its own beast, each sounding a bit off in a way that gets you looking closer, all so that it can jump up and get you by the throat. Even the slower tracks, like Night Crawler and Minotaur, provide more thrills than likeminded tracks from Putrifiers II.
Awfully fun for how tense it is, this is everything you want from indie rock today: adventurous and listenable, establishing a rich sonic ribcage and the slamming every surface on its way out 4.5/5
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