Surprise 1000! Over the last couple months I found 5 (five!)
albums* that I'd heard and forgotten to list and only recovered and reviewed retroactively via the
magic of my last.fm scrobbling. Numbers be all fucked - some day I
might try to write a script to fix em.
So. Coachwhips.
My obsession with Thee Oh Sees has been pretty well documented on this blog, so what to do having finally caught up with their torrent of output? Get cracking on John Dwyer's earlier bands!
The same basic Oh Sees parts are in place: organ drones, garagey thrash, staccato bullhorn screeds, and general start-stop guitar madness. These are parts stripped from the Chevy though: there's no dissonant vocals, no K-records tininess, no extended jams, just unadorned 2-minute garage-punk glory. This is a nascent, thrashing version of the beast that would devour worlds, just pure revival of the 60's finest moments, and its a thrilling, exhausting listen 4/5
* Specifically:
525a The Frogs - It's Only Right and Natural
526a Frank Ocean - Channel Orange
526b The Frogs - Bananimals (sorry Frogs!)
618a Feed Me - Feed Me's Escape from Electric Mountain
921a The Rolling Stones - Between the Buttons
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