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OH SEES

Orc 8/10

- Dwyer’s skronk overlords mix moments of foot-tapping calm with facemeltin­g magic PETER WATTS

Oh Sees (the Thee has been retired) are now so good at what they do best – warped psychy funk groovers and fuzzbox-busting goblin thumpers – that the interest with each new album is how John Dwyer will add to their prodigious armoury. Last year’s fantastic A Weird Exits featured a couple of unexpected­ly proggy ballads, while Orc has the drifting instrument­al calm of “Keys To The Castle”, the dancey ripple of “Paranoise” and the drawn-out jazzy shuffle of “Raw Optics”. For shredheads, there’s urgent opener “The Static God”, while the superb “Animated Violence” alternates between the album’s twin moods of sustained guitar menace and reflective percussive ambience.

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