Thee Oh Sees - 'Floating Coffin'

By Jacob Eckert

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The album cover offers a quite accurate description of the sounds contained within Floating Coffin. It’s a hodgepodge mixture of sweeter, mellower tracks reminiscent of the strawberries on the cover, but it’s not without its fangs, which are shown in full force on the album’s punk tracks.The San Francisco-based band seems to be bridging a gap between the all-out punk sound of their early records and perhaps a more overtly psychedelic, subdued future to come. The record has tracks that are guaranteed to melt your face (“Toe Cutter – Thumb Buster”), space you out (“No Spell”) and finally bring you back home calmly and softly (“Minotaur”).Thee Oh Sees are without a doubt a very exciting band, and it’ll be interesting to see where they go after releasing such a fantastic, original record this year.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R44Qh2P7wo0