★★★★★
Oscillating garage rock weirdness from West Coast psychonaut... There's always been something restless about Thee Oh Sees. It's in the shimmering psychedelic music they have been recording since 2008's The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending A Night In. It's in the speed with which they put out new releases, 13 in six years including lives and comps, plus numerous EPs and seven inches...
- www.uncut.co.uk
2014-05-13
★★★★★
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Release Date: April 22, 2014Label: Castle Face
Like a liquor store within stumbling distance, garage-rock is there when you need it, and despite what crate-diggers might've feared when the Hives booked studio time with Pharrell, it hasn't changed much...
- www.spin.com
2014-04-26
★★★★★
The latest album from this prolific LA-via-San Francisco band led by John Dwyer is another first-rate set of psych-tinged garage-rock ranging from motorik trance-rock and raging stoner-rock to some surprisingly pretty atmospheric psych-pop. 4/25/2014
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- kexp.org
2014-04-26
★★★★★
Well, that didn't take long. As it turns out, the only thing Thee Oh Sees do more expediently than release new music is hiatuses. Less than five months after frontman John Dwyer told a hometown audience at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall that they wouldn't be seeing the band in action for a while, Thee Oh Sees have reemerged with their eighth full-length record in six years (to say nothing of a 7" and split-EP stream that that presumably puts as great a strain on America's vinyl...
- pitchfork.com
2014-04-24
★★★★★
When we last checked in with John Dwyer and co., they were busily transitioning the trippy studio tomfoolery of 2012's Putrifiers II into a harder rocking album about death. Floating Coffin revisited the scalding garage punk of Carrion Crawler/The Dream, imbuing it with a gleeful sense of existential dread and a more polished veneer...
- www.tinymixtapes.com
2014-04-24
★★★★★
7.5
Music | Reviews
Thee Oh Sees: Drop Review
April 22, 2014 | 10:45am
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From the very first "Sweat Leaf"-channeling fuzz riff, there's no question what's being "dropped" on this latest dispatch from prolific San Francisco garage-psych veterans Thee Oh Sees. How many hits is anybody's guess, but I think "at least a 10-strip" is a safe place to start...
- www.pastemagazine.com
2014-04-23
★★★★★
The Bay Area's most prolific contemporary thrashers, Thee Oh Sees, are a force of strange nature. Led by mastermind John Dwyer, the amorphous group seemingly record and perform constantly, producing brilliant, sharp garage ditties virtually around the clock. As a consequence, the ragtag group has conjured a revival for psychedelia and ushered in a further appreciation of music rooted in early garage sensibilities...
- consequenceofsound.net
2014-04-22
★★★★★
This year at SXSW, San Francisco rock luminary John Dwyer appeared not as part of Thee Oh Sees, the merry psychedelic rock troupe he's fronted since 2008, but as frontman of The Coachwhips - an ultra-lo-fi garage trio he was wrecking ears with round about 2003. Dwyer's tendency to ricochet his way through a variety of groups and side projects has occasionally made him appear the sort of maddening figure who'll switch up the script right at the very moment success comes calling...
- www.nme.com
2014-04-21
★★★★★
Here's what we know: Thee Oh Sees mastermind John Dwyer, frustrated with an influx of wealth in his beloved hometown of San Francisco, relocated to Los Angeles late in 2013. He insinuated in one of Thee Oh Sees' last San Francisco shows that fans wouldn't be hearing from the band for a while. It would seem Dwyer didn't leave the city on amicable terms...
- exclaim.ca
2014-05-01