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Memory of a Cut Off Head
by OCS
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Posted by LetsLoop on August 30, 2017, 7:04 pm Memory of a Cut Off Head is the lead single and title track to psychedelic rock band @OCS's upcoming 20th album (under various guises), which is out November 17th on Castle Face Records.OCS is the name that John Dwyer used to release music until his 2006 album, The Cool Death of Island Raiders, prompted a re-branding to The Oh Sees. That change lasted for only two albums, before he finally settled on @Thee Oh Sees. Or so we thought...
Earlier this year, the band made one final change and now go by @Oh Sees. So, in short, OCS changed their name to The Oh Sees and then Thee Oh Sees and are now called Oh Sees but have also revived OCS, which shouldn't be confused with this @OCS. So yeah, pretty damn confusing!
Here's what their label, Castle Face Records, had to say about the new single:
"It is easy to forget (especially amidst the ringing of ears and aching of muscles after your typical Oh Sees show) that initially, OCS was a rather hushed affair. After the minimalistic brutality of Coachwhips, OCS was a diametric opposite corner of John’s musical world, quiet to the point of whispered in the wind, buffeted by the airy whirr of singing saw, soft and strange.
Those early records especially had a rather contraband hush about them, as if the party has gone on all night and continues into the morning but everyone’s raspy from talking too much and gradually agrees to whisper and pantomime as they watch the sun come up over the hills. Since then of course, things got gradually louder, faster, crazier...the band evolved since then into the Oh Sees everyone knows.
For the 20th Oh Sees release, 100th Castle Face title, and 20th year doing it, John re-examines the quieter roots of it all in particularly baroque and homesteadly fashion. Memory of a Cut Off Head was co-written with longtime collaborator and vocal counterpoint Brigid Dawson, recorded in total in John’s own Stu Stu Studio, and it’s lush, sumptuous in texture, but satisfyingly retains the gentle grace of the early stuff.
There’s beautifully executed strings throughout, courtesy of Heather Lockie’s fine arrangements, horn arrangements courtesy of @Mikal Cronin, and they even brought back the old saw - Patrick Mullins, that is - on saw and electronics. A return and a refinement of old forms, a few solemn meditations on life lived at high velocity, perhaps a respite from it…a softer side of JPD and distinguished company. It’s out on Castle Face Records Nov. 17th"
Memory Of A Cut Off Head will be the band's second album this year, following the release of the Oh Sees' debut album, Orc, last Friday.
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