Thee Oh Sees – ‘Mutilator Defeated At Last’ (2015)

Lo-fi garage psych groovesters Thee Oh Sees album, Mutilator Defeated At Last will completely melt your mind–in a good way! The record hits the sweet spot from the get go and just sounds better with each repeated listening–and it boasts enhanced production values from the band’s earlier efforts and a tight rhythm section in Tim Hellman and Nick Murray.

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Leader John Dwyer’s unfettered creative genius is also in full effect here–with hooks aplenty–from killer bass-driven opening track “Web” through album closer “Palace Doctor.” Along the way the Naked Raygun-esque “Withered Hand,” deliciously fractured fable “Poor Queen,” ‘60s-era-Who-inspired “Turned Out Light,” and Hendrix-gasm inducing “Lupine Ossuary” amaze and delight.

But the sumptuously mellow “Sticky Hulks” is the mirror-cracked champion track.

– Sean Mageean

Thee Oh Sees – ‘Mutilator Defeated At Last’ (Castle Face, 2015)