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Rating: Aha! What a great album Thee Oh Sees have produced (this time actually without the "Thee"). An album that won't change the history of rock but makes you want to press play again as soon as it's over (and these days, that's no small feat).
At first, it seems like just garage-pop, but soon you're swept into a boiling magma of acid guitars, almost hard-rock accelerations, and psychedelic frenzies from which you can't escape unscathed.
The drums are omnipresent and drag along an incredibly tight rhythm section, serving as a backdrop to schizophrenic guitar riffs that are always on point, with soundscapes moving from cosmic-rock to heavier noise.
The doubt is ever-present, are we listening to psychedelic garage rock, space metal, or acid progressive? Possibly more the first, but there are so many other influences that the right tension never wanes, and with all the elements in their place, the result is exciting and ever so intriguing.
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