Thee Oh Sees - Face Stabber

Thee Oh Sees - Face StabberOh Sees' 2017 album Smote Reverser seemed at the time of its release to be just about as far as the band could push their combination psychedelic metal prog jazz garage sound before it might split into a million pieces. It was hard to imagine that John Dwyer and company could twist, fold, or mangle things any more than they were or that they could add more elements without capsizing the rollicking ship entirely. Face Stabber puts a lie to those

strong lyrics

and abstract observation remains potent

he sounds more fascinated by life's turns than bummed out by them

This is Rodrigo Amarante's first solo record

including Snoop Dogg

band members Joey Burns

these tapes are not only a stunning artifact of indigenous ethnomusicology

Jon Hendricks

Tenement Kid builds like a breakbeat crescendo to the final quarter of the book

what lurks in the shadows of News of the Universe is nothing less than death itself

Plastic Beach is the third studio album by British virtual band Gorillaz

sometimes suffocating