In the latest twist to an always-different, always-the-same discography that romps through garage, punk, kraut, pop and multiple lineup changes, US psychonauts Thee Oh Sees have taken their recent double-drummered live lineup into the studio. As with last year’s Mutilator Defeated At Last, there’s less fuzz than of yore, and a newly gutsy dynamism on the likes of the cymbal-crashing Ticklish Warrior, or the thrashily exhilarating Gelatinous Cube. There’s still plenty of range, as on the stately space psych of Crawl Out from the Fallout or the punch-drunk, organ-drenched anti-love song The Axis. It’s comfortably strange territory, and while it might not open any new or mind-melting doors, Thee Oh Sees remain rampantly good fun.
