Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania LP xx2002 occasional guitar plucks

occasional guitar plucks

The birds watch but do they listen

slightly strange recording decisions over a shmick industry sanctioned sound that would often accidentally creep into a band with such pop sensibilities

but that can last forever and carry consequences you never imagined

the album preceded much of the hardcore metal crossover of the mid-80s and played an influential but often unacknowledged role in the punk and metal subgenres that followed

Thee Oh Sees - Castlemania LP xx2002 occasional guitar plucksSan 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