{"id":1692,"date":"2011-09-27T17:48:40","date_gmt":"2011-09-27T22:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/?p=1692"},"modified":"2015-06-27T15:29:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-27T20:29:52","slug":"thee-oh-sees-castlemania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/2011\/09\/27\/thee-oh-sees-castlemania\/","title":{"rendered":"Thee Oh Sees: Castlemania"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p id=\"internal-source-marker_0.6921433247625828\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Summertime pop&#8221; from rotation establishment.\u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">OCS&#8217; new record is noisy, poppy, psychedelic, punky and groovy \u2013 everything you&#8217;ve come to expect from John Dwyer and company. I spoke with Dwyer on the phone a few weeks after Garage Fest, and he said he views this \u201csummertime pop\u201d record as more of a solo effort. The liner notes include an exhaustive list of the instruments Dwyer plays, while the other three members who make up the latest incarnation of OCS aren&#8217;t mentioned at all, other than Brigid Dawson&#8217;s vocals on #14 and #16. Ty Segall plays drums and bass on #6 and sings on #14. Covers: #14 is by the West Coast Pop Experimental Band, #15 is by Big Wheel, and #16 is by Norma Tanega. #7 is great but less than a minute long. #8 and #9 are my faves, and the Big Wheel song is my favorite cover. #13 is an eerie, flute-led instrumental track. #11 is right on par with Beefheart&#8217;s \u201cAbba Zaba.\u201d Excellent stuff. Try listening to it on 33 if you get a chance to spin the vinyl. It&#8217;s a 12\u201d pressed at 45 RPM, so I have a feeling it&#8217;s meant to be listened to both ways, especially since Dwyer&#8217;s vocals sound sped up on a lot of these tracks anyway.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Reviewed by Alex Tretbar<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">RIYL: The Seeds, Captain Beefheart, Coachwhips, Pink &amp; Brown<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Recommended\u00a0tracks: 9, 8, 11, 15, 6, 4, 5, 10, 14, 3, 16<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">FCC warning: 1, 2<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Label: In the Red<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Summertime pop&#8221; from rotation establishment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4332,"featured_media":1696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3235],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-music-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/Castlemania-Thee_Oh_Sees_480.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kjhk.org\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}