Enthusiastic and strange, a perfect good-time balance of the artfully absurd and the sonically robust.
This record marks a maturity milestone for the band. They played tight and cohesively on Putrifiers II. They were good. But with Coffin they are damn good.
Although Floating Coffin does quite well with its searing powerhouses, the quieter moments add a much-needed sonic diversity.
It’s somewhat surprising as to how well of a grip Thee Oh Sees have here, and although prolificacy may warrant missteps, this doesn’t seem to be the case with this band.
There are plenty of familiar garage-y thrills to be found here, but a new sense of menace too.
These songs take big bites, bites that take some chewing – for player and listener – to get through them, to find the good stuff in them we need.
Floating Coffin will stand as a successful foray into the world of straight-ahead, heavy-rocking, non-weird alternative indie rock.
Thee Oh Sees are incapable of recording an unlikeable album, and Floating Coffin’s warmed garage slashers will satisfy a noise-addled listener.
With tracks like "Minotaur" teasing toward its release, I thought Floating Coffin would be a catchy, energetic, and colorful garage rock record. Rather than follow suit, many other tracks on this LP riff endlessly with unadventurous guitars and uninspiring song structures.
DONT EAT ME
King giz part 2? Kinda feels like that a little bit but this is still a pretty good album. Fun jams all around. I think the best songs are easily the first 2, especially Toe Cutter Thumb Buster. That riff is fucking candyyyyyy to my earssss. I also enjoy Minotaur as a closer, it’s pretty cool in its dynamics. The rest of the album is fine to pretty good. So yeh
I Come from the Mountain - 8.5
Toe Cutter Thumb Buster - 9.5
The Floating Coffin - 6.5
No Spell - 7.5
Strawberries ... read more
BIG GIRL REVIEW: As a self admitted sucker for psych rock, it was only a matter of time before I delved into Thee Oh Sees (or Oh Sees, Osees, OCS, whatever they go by this week really).
A few months back, “Floating Coffin” was the first Oh Sees’ record I tried to listen to and to be honest, I really wasn’t a huge fan at first. I really wanted to like this record, but I found a lot of the music here to be a bit repetitive and lack interesting ideas. However, I had seen ... read more
I enjoy Thee Osees as much as the next guy, and I was excited to check this album out since it's one of their most popular and respected releases around this time, however after giving it a full shot, I found it to be a pretty underwhelming record except for a few tracks that actually held up as some of the band's best material ever, like the first 2 songs and the very last song, "Minotaur"
For sure it's a colorful, playful and enjoyably chaotic Psychedelic Garage Rock album, with a ... read more
I enjoy Thee Osees as much as the next guy, and I was excited to check this album out since it's one of their most popular and respected releases around this time, however after giving it a full shot, I found it to be a pretty underwhelming record except for a few tracks that actually held up as some of the band's best material ever, like the first 2 songs and the very last song, "Minotaur"
For sure it's a colorful, playful and enjoyably chaotic Psychedelic Garage Rock album, with a ... read more
the most popular album of the osees marathon
to me this is like a more polished verion of carrion crawler. it still has those energetic riffs but theyre less noisy and in your face. still this is one of their best records as it goes from energetic to playful and happy to relaxed and more mellow. the songs are arranged well so that the whole experience feels like the album is sort of transforming as you keep listening. just bangers after bangers all around not much else to say about this one. ... read more
1 | I Come From the Mountain 4:28 | 86 |
2 | Toe Cutter - Thumb Buster 3:32 | 90 |
3 | The Floating Coffin 2:22 | 71 |
4 | No Spell 4:26 | 79 |
5 | Strawberries 1 + 2 5:45 | 73 |
6 | Maze Fancier 3:16 | 75 |
7 | Night Crawler 4:12 | 79 |
8 | Sweets Helicopter 2:44 | 78 |
9 | Tunnel Time 4:10 | 77 |
10 | Minotaur 4:50 | 88 |
#5 | / | Rough Trade |
#16 | / | Uncut |
#35 | / | Time Out London |
#41 | / | Crack Magazine |
#49 | / | No Ripcord |
#75 | / | PopMatters |