Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin (2025 Repress)

We all know the type: prolific bands that commit every loose thought, stray idea and 90-second song fragment to tape. Bands that pay no attention to little inconveniences like “release cycles” or “self-editing,” and instead decide that quantity equals quality, creating a discography more labyrinthine, imposing and—ultimately—exhausting than the cast of creatures in a sci-fi novel. 

Here is why none of that applies to Thee Oh Sees. Because each of the dozen-plus albums they’ve released since 2004 possesses a distinct personality and represents a different point along the path of JOHN DWYER’s slow transformation from auteur of woozy, bare-bones four-track psychedelia to goggle-eyed garage rock marauder backed at long last by a band that both shares and stokes his singular vision.

Because drop a needle on any record and—to their great credit—it takes several songs before you’re convinced it’s Thee Oh Sees. The seasick hundred-bottles-of-rum shanty “What the Driven Drink,” from 2007’s delirious Sucks Blood exists in a different galaxy than the rollercoastering “Chem-Farmer” from last year’s Carrion Crawler / The Dream; the doomy doo-wop of “Blood on the Deck” hardly seems like the product of the same band that delivered the yelping “Ruby Go Home” in 2009.

2025 black vinyl repress.

Tracklist:
A1        I Come From The Mountain
A2        Toe Cutter / Thumb Buster
A3        Floating Coffin
A4        No Spell
A5        Strawberries 1+2
B1        Maze Fancier
B2        Night Crawler
B3        Sweets Helicopter
B4        Tunnel Time
B5        Minotaur