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Live Review: Osees / Top Left club – Chalk Venue, Brighton 08.05.2022

Californian psychedelic rock, fuzz-laden sounds come to Brighton to a sold-out Chalk Venue and the dedicated fans were in for a treat! ‘Osees’ formed in California in 1997 and have…

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PREMIERE: John Dwyer is at it again on Gong Splat’s self-titled debut album

You know John Dwyer, right? Him from the Osees/Oh Sees/OCS etc.? If so, you know he’s famously prolific, and even though his main gig have taken a year off from…

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News: Osees come firing out with another Levitation Session live stream in April; see a taster, ‘Snickersee’

POSSIBLY the absolute best live band in the world right now and for quite a while, John Dwyer’s Osees are determined we don’t go through our second pandemic spring without…

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Track: John Dwyer, Ted Byrnes, Greg Coates, Tom Dolas, Brad Caulkins share ‘No Flutter/Goose’; more loose, free impro from the Osees nexus

WE NEED not look any further here at just how productive John Dwyer and the whole O Sees nexus is – suffice to say, wow; and just weeks on from…

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ALBUM REVIEW: John Dwyer, Nick Murray, Brad Caulkins, Tom Dolas and Greg Coates – ‘Witch Egg’

There's so many ideas in Witch Egg, from so many genres and eras: mod, krautrock, free jazz, even acid jazz; they're arrived at, explored at once, captured, moved on from. It speaks much of the restless creativity at the heart of this, John Dwyer. It's quite a journey for a fringe music head

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TRACKS: John Dwyer, Nick Murray, Brad Caulkins, Tom Dolas and Greg Coates – ‘Greener Pools’ and ‘City Maggot’: Osees bods steps out into jazz-psych impro

IF YOU thought a mere four albums in 2020 – the twin suns of Protean Threat and its through-the-looking-glass rerub Panther Rotate, the limited Metamorphose and the cassette-only Levitation Sessions…

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SEE: Osees’ roarin’ live take on ‘Gelatinous Cube’; Dwyer’s boys announce live stream

OSEES – the band who Marc Riley called the “best live band in the world”, and he was so on the money – have released footage of a live take…

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Track: Osees – ‘Scramble Experiment’

THE HIGHLY prolific psych-beasts Osees, formerly Thee Oh Sees, are back with more after the release of their album Protean Threat earlier this year. “Scramble Experiment”, the opener of their…

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LIVE: OSees whirl up a sandstorm in the Californian desert for The Levitation Sessions

A FRIDGE full of beers; pizza and chips in the oven, and a spread of crisps laid out: this is the ‘new normal’ for the live show experience during the…

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ALBUM REVIEW: Osees – ‘Protean Threat’: John Dwyer trips us further into prog-tinged fuzz garage

JOHN DWYER’S Osees. I mean, they’re an absolute force of nature; a vivacious, fiery, disciplined, fun, piledriving force. If you’ve never seen them, by jiminy you need to: kinda meh…

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