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Artist: Thee Oh Sees
Album: Castlemania
Label: In the Red Records
Playtime: 41:56 min
Genre: Indie
URL: http://www.theeohsees.com/
Rip date: 2011-08-13
Street date: 2011-05-10
Size: 81.07 MB
Type: Normal
Quality: 257 kbps / 4410Hz / Joint Stereo
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San Francisco's incredibly prolific Thee Oh Sees are back with another
full-length album of original tracks plus a smattering of covers. While the
group's previous releases on In The Red, Help and Warm Slime, showcase their
amped-up, reverb-drenched garage-psych pummel, on Castlemania, John Dwyer and
company take a more low-key approach. Dwyer himself describes Castlemania as
"summer-y and poppy"; on many of the tracks, electric guitars are jettisoned
for acoustic, and the normally echo-laden vocals are a bit clearer. Happy pop
melodies, sweet and somber tunes, psychedelic moves galore, cover versions of
The Creation and the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band, and at least one
garage stomper all rub elbows on Thee Oh Sees' "sunshine pop" album. Its
release couldn't be more perfectly suited to the time of the year when the
sunny skies return and the flowers start blooming.
- Track List ---------------------------------------------------------------- -
01. I Need Seed ( 2:55)
02. Corprophagist (A Bath Perhaps) ( 2:13)
03. Stinking Cloud ( 3:11)
04. Corrupted Coffin ( 2:08)
05. Pleasure Blimps ( 2:42)
06. A Wall, A Century 2 ( 2:42)
07. Spider Cider ( 0:58)
08. The Whipping Continues ( 2:27)
09. Blood On The Deck ( 2:18)
10. Castlemania ( 2:31)
11. AA Warm Breeze ( 3:03)
12. Idea For A Rubber Dog ( 1:28)
13. The Horse Was Lost ( 3:52)
14. I Won't Hurt You ( 2:32)
15. If I Stay Too Long ( 3:34)
16. What Are We Craving? ( 3:22)
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