With a stage show that's best described as sweat-drenched and a long list of albums sporting their trademark unhinged approach, The Oh Sees are one of the most invigorating garage punk bands of their era.
Led by guitarist/vocalist John Dwyer, whose guitar sound and brutally powerful way of playing are instantly identifiable, the group went through a series of changes that led them from clanging lo-fi garage experimentalism on albums like their 2007 debut, Sucks Blood, to weirdo psych-pop on 2011's Castlemania and almost slick garage punk on 2014's Drop.
After that album, Dwyer expanded the band's sonic reach to include proto-metal, dark psych, and trippy prog. 2015's Mutilator Defeated at Last bore the first fruits of this new sound, and over the next few years they embarked on a mad rush of creativity, resulting in a slew of mind-bending albums: 2016's A Weird Exits added some motorik rhythms to the mix; boogie rock organs and mystical jazz-rock were featured on 2018's Smote Reverser; and 2020's Metamorphosed offered up a blown-out fusion of all the things they had been doing over the past decade. Along the way they became a top-tier psychedelic rock band, one that could be counted on to do the unexpected -- like release a hardcore punk album (2022's A Foul Form) -- with reliably thrilling results.
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