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90
It’s ideal for anyone who likes shredding, distortion and weird tones being brought forth through guitars.
90
It's a work of compulsion demanding your awareness, and your ears.
90
On A Foul Form, they have shredded their recent formulas, incinerated them and conjured something from the ashes that just might be their most brutal creation.
80
Compared to the grander constructs of their latter-day Oh Sees albums, A Foul Form is a hit and run job where the music jumps in, leaves everyone stunned, and splits before the cops can show up. It's a manic blast of pure energy with lots of smarts if you're looking for them, and demonstrates Osees are never short on daring, ideas, and the skills to make them work.
80
It can be hard to shake the awareness that this is a homage, and that the feedback or slightly off guitar tones have been included as stylistic signifiers rather than being happy accidents. However, there’s a joyful lack of abandon and refusal to compromise which A Foul Form shares with Osees’ more explicitly psychedelic releases.
80
Responding to the grimness they see around them, Osees have channelled the scuzziest, heaviest and most potent punk of the Reagan/Thatcher era.
80
Album of high velocity punk from Californian name-changers Osees obliterates all before it.
74
While A Foul Form honors the history of hardcore, it also occurs as smartly topical, the band’s turbid rage and anti-aesthetic stance conjuring a post-capitalistic malaise and the decay of global culture.
70
The prolific band returns with a brief and seething left-turn: a furious homage to the scummiest, crustiest hardcore of the early ’80s.
70
It’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea, but as someone who loves this kind of music, let me be the first to say the band have stuck the landing.
70
A revolutionary step in the band's catalogue this is not, but the sound of Dwyer and co having a lot of fun in his basement radiates throughout, as does the band's seamless knack for tapping into any strand of punk they turn their hand to.
60
Even for an Osees album, this one is completely different.
The vocals on this album be like !@d*Ed^$*!@ad#^$( &!@#($*&!f@#&pedksdg(*%d.,a&!&#. @*$&gd!@#$
This is one of the most confusing albums I’ve heard in awhile. I.. I don’t even know where to begin. It literally feels like some songs are just straight noise and I don’t really get the appeal. Other songs aren't like that though. The thing that saves this album from being bad to me is the production. I think that the guitars actually fill the ears really ... read more
Weird, fun, uneven, and concise to its own detriment. Some of the groovier tracks don't get enough time to fully ring out, while the boring ones take up too much time of the record. Still a pretty entertaining listen overall, though.
Weird but it works: an album mixing punk and noise, creating a retro sounding but still modern in scope.
This album is aggressive: the vocals are rough, the guitars are thick, the bass is omnipresent. In other words: it's pure punk bliss.
However, like other Ohsees records, something is lacking, something that prevent this opera from being really great. I'd like them to explore more the possibilities of their abilities and creativity
21 minutes of pure assault on the ears, fuck yes
EDIT: Yeah this kinda shrunk on me. Original score was 80, now it’s 70. Some of the songs are really enjoyable, but there’s some fluff here.
Thankfully the album is short, so it doesn’t get too boring.
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Track List
| 1 | Funeral Solution 1:52 | 77 |
| 2 | Frock Block 1:37 | 67 |
| 3 | Too Late For Suicide 3:30 | 70 |
| 4 | A Foul Form 1:51 | 75 |
| 5 | A Burden Snared 1:21 | 56 |
| 6 | Scum Show 1:49 | 71 |
| 7 | Fucking Kill Me 1:40 | 77 |
| 8 | Perm Act 3:52 | 77 |
| 9 | Social Butt 3:20 | 78 |
| 10 | Sacrifice 1:02 | 70 |
Total Length: 21 minutes
Year End Lists
| #8 | / | Louder Than War |
| #10 | / | Piccadilly Records |
| #17 | / | Rough Trade (UK) |
| #32 | / | Norman Records |
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Added on: May 16, 2022