Thee Oh Sees – Floating Coffin (LP Vinyl)
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Floating Coffin originally landed in 2013 on Castle Face Records, the San Francisco imprint John Dwyer co-founded, and it marked a decisive turn toward the heavier, dual-drummer assault that would define the band's next phase. The album captured Dwyer and company at a particular live peak, when their shows were becoming genuinely dangerous in the best possible way, all churning repetition and blown-out riffs that owed as much to Roky Erickson as to Can.
*We all know the type: prolific bands that commit every loose thought, stray idea and 90-second song fragment to tape. Bands that pay no attention to little inconveniences like "release cycles" or "self-editing," and instead decide that quantity equals quality, creating a discography more labyrinthine, imposing and-ultimately-exhausting than the cast of creatures in a sci-fi novel. Here is why none of that applies to THEE OH SEES. Because each of the dozen-plus albums they've released since 2004 possesses a distinct personality and represents a different point along the path of JOHN DWYER's slow transformation from auteur of woozy, bare-bones four-track psychedelia to goggle-eyed garage rock marauder backed at long last by a band that both shares and stokes his singular vision. Because drop a needle on any record and-to their great credit-it takes several songs before you're convinced it's Thee Oh Sees. The seasick hundred-bottles-of-rum shanty "What the Driven Drink," from 2007's delirious Sucks Blood exists in a different galaxy than the rollercoastering "Chem-Farmer" from last year's Carrion Crawler / The Dream; the doomy doo-wop of "Blood on the Deck" hardly seems like the product of the same band that delivered the yelping "Ruby Go Home" in 2009.
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Side B
UPC: 657628452409
Label: Deathgod Corp
Release Date: 4.18.25
Format: LP Vinyl