Thee Oh Sees are always the same but different, drifting through genres before twisting them out of shape ... On A Weird Exits, they do this more successfully than ever before, with Dwyer taking the band into pulsing dance rhythms and Krautrock as he explores the rich, crackling rhythmic potential of the group’s new two-drummer lineup.
Thee Oh Sees push their normal cartoonishly unhinged garage punk into new krautrock-inspired levels of madness on A Weird Exits.
Thee Oh Sees are not a band that will ever seriously reconsider their dynamics, and nor should they. A Weird Exits just goes to show that some bands are so vital to their scene that they never need to change.
With Mutilator, and now this album, the band is firing on all cylinders and then some, making psych-prog-metal-punk jams for the ages.
Even when their pendulum is swinging at a steadier pace, Thee Oh Sees still have the power to hypnotize—but from its twitchy jams to its blown-out power ballads, A Weird Exits’ most intriguing moments come when they break the trance.
There’s nothing in A Weird Exits that signals a massive change in the future of Thee Oh Sees, nor does it stand head and shoulders above their catalog. Instead it’s one of many great records they’ve produced and one that shows a refinement and strengthening in John Dwyer’s guitar and voice and one that will continue to fill mosh pits the world over.
There isn’t much to separate A Weird Exits from its 16 predecessors, although it does take elements of their renowned sound and push it to its limits like never before.
A Weird Exits feels like the first time in a while that Dwyer has chosen to take a lurch forward rather than a small step.
Thee Oh Sees - A Weird Exits (2016)
Dead Man's Gun - 80 ☆
Ticklish Warrior - 84 ☆
Jammed Entrance - 73
Plastic Plant - 83 ☆
Gelatinous Cube - 81 ☆
Unwrap the Fiend Pt. 2 - 79
Crawl out from the Fall Out - 83 ☆
The Axis - 83 ☆
Full on progressive rock on a lot of songs, touching the power pop genre at times, which is usually a bad move, but obviously it suits their songwriting style, so it does work, and functions well as an album.
Somedays i feel like i like this a bit better than Orc but then another day I don't
Edit: fuck it it's better than Orc
osees marathon continues
pretty much the same as mutilator but the psych rock is cranked up to the max. the drumming is just as great just like on mutilator. if this one maintained its energy all the way through instead of switching up in the last leg i think it may have been their best. not to say the ending is bad but i think its worse compared to the first couple of tracks which are just balls to the walls. still this remains as one of the best albums in their discog and i hope it gains ... read more
make sure to check out this if you're looking for a record with a kind of strange personality
Good overall. Last two tracks are a bit of a quality drop but it’s a decent (albeit somewhat forgettable) psychedelic rock album.
1 | Dead Man's Gun 3:28 | 79 |
2 | Ticklish Warrior 3:06 | 84 |
3 | Jammed Entrance 5:21 | 79 |
4 | Plastic Plant 5:39 | 86 |
5 | Gelatinous Cube 3:27 | 88 |
6 | Unwrap the Fiend, Pt. 2 4:27 | 79 |
7 | Crawl out from the Fall Out 7:50 | 74 |
8 | The Axis 6:11 | 72 |
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