{"product_id":"thee-oh-sees","title":"Thee Oh Sees - Carrion Crawler","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlbum - Release Date: 21\/02\/25 - LP\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGenre: Krautrock\/Garage Rock\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-coYmiO gvONFE\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-zlUcK liZBFl\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-ecTevR blJvvg\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-dRGYJT hoSjha\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-dmA-DAn eGwkyD\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description-product\" class=\"sc-fxwrCY sc-kaaGRQ fVLMkS dhigCN\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-jztukc dRIXJV\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-cbPlza fqJdKv\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-fxwrCY sc-dIHSXr fVLMkS bNmyLa\" data-testid=\"description-product\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-jztukc dRIXJV\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-cbPlza fqJdKv\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-fxwrCY sc-dIHSXr fVLMkS bNmyLa\" data-testid=\"description-product\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-jztukc dRIXJV\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-cbPlza fqJdKv\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-fxwrCY sc-dIHSXr fVLMkS bNmyLa\" data-testid=\"description-product\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-jztukc dRIXJV\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-cbPlza fqJdKv\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-fxwrCY sc-dIHSXr fVLMkS bNmyLa\" data-testid=\"description-product\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-jztukc dRIXJV\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sc-cbPlza fqJdKv\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-testid=\"description-product\" class=\"sc-fxwrCY sc-dIHSXr fVLMkS bNmyLa\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat’s the first thing you think of when someone mentions Thee \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eOh\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eSees\u003c\/span\u003e? Probably their riot-sparking live show, right? Visions of a guitar-chewing, melody-maiming John Dwyer careening across your cranium, rounded out by a wild-eyed wrecking crew that drives every last hook home like it’s a nail in the coffin of what you thought it meant to make 21st-century rock ’n’ roll? Yeah, that sounds about right. But it misses a more important point—how impossible Thee \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eOh\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eSees\u003c\/span\u003e have been to pin down since Dwyer launched the project in the late ’90s as a solo break from such sorely missed underground bands as Pink and Brown and Coachwhips. (While Dwyer still records songs on his own, Thee \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eOh\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eSees\u003c\/span\u003e is now a five-piece featuring keyboardist \/ singer Brigid Dawson, guitarist Petey Dammit, drummer Mike Shoun and multi-instrumentalist \/ singer Lars Finberg.) That restlessness extends to everything from the towering, thirteen-minute title track of 2010’s Warm Slime LP to the mercurial moods of 2008’s The Master’s Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In.  Now, Thee \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eOh\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cspan class=\"il\"\u003eSees\u003c\/span\u003e chase the home-brewed symphonies of Castlemania with the scrappy, high-wire hooks of Carrion Crawler \/ The Dream. Originally envisioned as two EPs, it was cut live to tape in less than a week at Chris Woodhouse’s Sacramento studio in June, reflecting the battering-ram bent of the band’s live show better than any bootleg ever could. “As I’m sure most would agree,” explains Dwyer, “Castlemania was more of a vocal tirade. This one’s meant to pummel and throb.” That it does, whether one blasts the slow, speaker-bruising build of “The Dream,” the sunburnt organs and dovetailing guitars of “Crack in Your Eye” or the interstellar instrumental “Chem-Farmer,” a perfect example of what happens when one takes a well-oiled machine—a gang of rabid road warriors, really—and adds a second, groove-locked drum set to the mix. To listen is to realize that Dwyer’s music is as manic as the underground comic inclinations of his artwork; colorful and confusing in a way that’s more than welcome. It’s downright refreshing, like a slap in the face at 5:00 in the morning. Or, as Dwyer puts it, “You have to leave a mark somehow.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54956457591159,"sku":null,"price":32.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0549\/7765\/8998\/files\/unnamed_c6e7e565-f13d-4229-97ae-289f66ddfe42.jpg?v=1739362255","url":"https:\/\/vinylwhistle.co.uk\/products\/thee-oh-sees","provider":"The Vinyl Whistle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}