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Don’t let the fact that John Dwyer is always releasing new music trick you into taking him for granted. In the first half of this year, the California psychedelic garage-punk king has already launched the new side project Heathen Axe<\/a>, released a new album under his solo guise Damaged Bug<\/a>, and dropped a surprise EP<\/a> from his best-known band, Osees. And now we get a whole new Osees LP too.<\/p>\n Off Course<\/em>, the new Osees record out today, is only five tracks, but some of them are long, and Dwyer is calling it an album. It certainly takes you on a journey the way good albums do. The songs are playful, funky, and hallucinatory in a way that reminds me how much King Gizzard owes to this crew. Dwyer says it emerged from endless jam sessions, a method the Osees hadn’t employed for a while:<\/p>\n We went back to an older method of writing for this one. Mixed it all up in the cauldron and thus we have a strange brew indeed So without further ado A signal dispatched out into the darkness<\/p>\n We are here CHEERS NO EARS\n
We jammed and jammed and jammed.
I took the tapes home and ironed out some mutant tunes.
We went back into the studio and burned them to tape live and then I took it home
to Stu-Stu-Studio and did the vocals and brought in Tom Dolas & Brigid Dawson to put the finish on.
Spice is always nice.<\/p>\n
Floating in the smoke we have:
A couple long jams, a couple short jams and a finale that\u2019ll dump a bucket of ear worms on you
(reminiscent of \u201cthe axis\u201d?)
Dip your toe in organ rock and roll<\/p>\n
We present to you
\u201cOFF COURSE\u201d
An album wondering where the fuck are we and how did we get here<\/p>\n
We are alive
And we are together<\/p>\n
JPD\/DG\/OSEES<\/p>\n