Orc Exclusive 2LP

A Newbury Comics exclusive color vinyl pressing.

The newly shorn Oh Sees waste no time in racing headlong into nightmarish battle with the mighty ORC, and wouldnt ya know it, theyve clawed even farther up the ghastly peak last years A Weird Exits stormed so satisfyingly. The band is in tour-greased, anvil on a balance beam, gut-pleasingly heavy form, nimbly braining with equal dashes of abandon and menace on this fresh batch of bruisers and brooders, hypnotically stirred into to the cauldron of chaos youve come to expect from, ahem, Oh Sees. Fresh blood Paul Quattrone joins Dan Rincon to form a phalanx of interlocking double drums, alternately propelling and fleet footing shifting ground to pinion Dwyers cliff-face guitars to the boogie. Tim Hellman keeps it swinging like a battle-axe to the eyebrows. The tunes veer towards the violence of their live shows, with a few tasty swerves into other lanesheavy to lush, groovy to statelythroughout it remains sinister in its swaggering skulk, manic in its fuzz-fried fuguesthey hit all the sweet spots the heads foggily remember, and theres plenty to sweat over if you just hopped into the sauna. Ew. More evil.more complexmore narcoticmore screech.more roar.more whispertheres even more Brigid.