Drop
Label | Castle Face – CF 33 |
Format | Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album |
Barcode | 0819162014783 |
Country | US |
Released | Apr 2014 |
Genre | Rock |
Style | Psychedelic Rock, Garage Rock |
Our lad John P. Dwyer has been lancing eardrums with Thee Oh Sees in an ever-escalating flurry of records for the past six years. Since the release of The Masters Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In announced a new loud era (and excepting a few momentary detours into home-baked territory-Dog Poison and Castlemania, for example), Dwyer and company have pummeled a bit harder each time out, cementing their reputation as a live force to be reckoned with and leaving legions sweaty and bruised in the process. Late last year, after years of relentlessly touring the world, the word got out. Dwyers moving to Los Angeles (fear not, still California!) and Thee Oh Sees are taking a much-needed hiatus with a shifting of gears ahead and a new album on the way. This is that album. Drop was recorded in a banana-ripening warehouse (no joke) with hair-farming studio warlock Chris Woodhouse playing drums, its also graced with the presence of talented gurus Mikal Cronin, Greer McGettrick and Casafis adding horns and vocals. The result pushes the familiar polarities of the group farther outward than ever before. Opener "Penetrating Eye" might be the heaviest Oh Sees song yet, "Transparent World" and "Put Some Reverb On My Brother" foam with seasick fuzz, and yet the ballads, like the harpsichorded "Kings Nose" and the lush and stately closer "The Lens," extend their oeuvre into mellotronic, far-out pop with delicacy and grace. This schizophrenia heralds the man and the band into an unseen future in classic Dwyer fashion-restless energy harnessed into exquisitely crafted jams, with an emphasis on the pensive and the paranoid in turns..
A1 | Penetrating Eye | |
A2 | Encrypted Bounce | |
A3 | Savage Victory | |
A4 | Put Some Reverb On My Brother | |
B5 | Drop | |
B6 | Camera (Queer Sound) | |
B7 | King's Nose | |
B8 | Transparent World | |
B9 | The Lens |
Artwork [Castle Face] – Adam Beris
Baritone Saxophone – Casafis
Cover [Record] – Jonny Negron
Drums, Bass, Mellotron – Chris Woodhouse
Engineer [Engineering Assistance By] – Big Bad Bob Marshall
Engineer, Mixed By, Mastered By – Chris Woodhouse
Guitar, Vocals, Bass, Synth, Percussion, Mellotron, Noises [Noise] – John Dwyer
Layout – Matt Jones
Photography By [Band Photos] – John Dwyer
Photography By [Dwyer Photo] – Heidi Alexander
Vocals, Other [Frisbee] – Greer McGettrick
Written-By – John P Dwyer
The cat# appears as "CF 33" on the drop, printed on the insert sheet and as "Castle Face Thirty Three" on spine.
Gold foil stamped Castle Face logo and dedication credits on the back of the cover
Matrix / Runout (Side A stamped, Variant 1) – PIRATES PRESS - CF - 033 A 115608M1/A
Matrix / Runout (Side B stamped, Variant 1) – PIRATES PRESS - CF - 033 B 115608M2/A
Matrix / Runout (Side A stamped, Variant 2) – PIRATES PRESS - CF - 033 A 115608M1/B
Matrix / Runout (Side A stamped, Variant 2) – PIRATES PRESS - CF - 033 B 115608M2/B