Oh Sees - Smote Reverser 2xLP garage As Private Lives wind the

As Private Lives wind the album away in the psychotic build of "Dark Spots"

There are times when you discover a debut release

from the cowbell-infused “One-Sided Triangle” to the Agent Orange-inspired lead guitar on “I Wanna Be Dated” (courtesy Scarecrow’s Jeff Leppard)

There’s a big goddamn difference between aching teenage lovage and the questions asked in these songs

It's what adults of the Cold War era would refer to as "your typical kill-your-mother-kill-your-father type stuff"

Oh Sees - Smote Reverser 2xLP garage As Private Lives wind theCrack the coffers, Oh Sees have spawned another frothy album of head destroying psych epics to grok and rock out to. Notice the fresh dollop of organ and keyboard prowess courtesy of Memory Of A Cut Off Head alum and noted key stabber Tom Dolas, while the Paul Quattrone Dan Rincon drum corps polyrhythmic pulse continues to astound and pound in equal measure, buttressed by the nimble fingered bottom end of Sir Tim Hellman the Brave and the shred heaven