The Thousands

While they’ve been busy reinventing themselves the last few years, Thee Oh Sees have really blossomed. It seems that once Dwyer nailed the coffin lid down on his noisy-garage-punk outfit The Coachwhips, a lot of what made them so special has found its way into the previously folk and psych-oriented OCS, or Ohsees, or Thee Oh Sees I guess it is these days. Either way, the band’s sound has matured right along with their name.

Warm Slime starts off somewhat unexpectedly with a 13-minute bass-driven odyssey that somehow never seems to get stale. It’s a major achievement considering the other tracks are all clocking in at under a third of the length and, while all very good as well, not nearly as exciting.

But throughout listening to the newest in a long line of Dwyer garage greatness, one question kept coming to mind. Why do all these Brooklyn-based revivalists keep making boring copycat bands when someone else has been playing perfection for years? Not all of you have to be in a band you know, some of you could get real jobs and contribute to society or something.