Osees have released their new album A Foul Form today – check out Live4ever’s review and stream the album right here.
“‘Bad times make for strong music is something I agree with,’ says the Osees frontman John Dwyer in introducing A Foul Form, their 24th album and one on which they embrace the fiercely DIY aesthetics of British anarcho-punk and new-birthing West Coast hardcore from the early 80’s.”
“22 minutes long from the opening feedback squall of Funeral Solution (which begins with Dwyer screeching, ‘What the fuck is going on/Human life is not that long’) to an exhilarating 60-second cover of Rudimentary Peni’s Sacrifice, the best description of it all is the singer’s own: ‘Brain stem cracking scum-punk, recorded tersely in the basement of my home.’”
“Given the band’s canon evolves with every release – having pulled on Nuggets-style garage, frazzled psychedelic rock and even taken in ambient electronica – a new temporary stop on the journey should hardly be a surprise, but what makes A Foul Form so life-affirming is its utter contempt for an overground the band have occasionally seemed destined for.”