Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II

Thee Oh Sees – Putrifiers II (In the Red)

This extremely prolific name- and line-up-changing San Franciscan band never stays put for long. Mastermind John Dwyer & co have released no less than 14 albums and a mountain of EPs and 7-inches over the course of their seven-ish year existence. If that doesn’t convince you Dwyer is a madman, then you should see him deep throat a mic during one of their legendarily wild live shows. All that restlessness has yielded a discography famous for shapeshifting. Appropriately enough, their latest album is like a sonic Rubik’s cube: at first listen, a scrambled mix of everything they’ve done before, from garage rock to psychedelia to pop to punk to folk to krautrock to drone, but once you let your ears twist it around enough, you’ll find that every facet of Putrifiers II is solid.

By Carly Blair