OCS - Memory Of A Cut Off Head


OCS

2LP

$62.00

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CASTLE FACE

Date of release: Dec 15 2017


It is easy to forget (especially amidst the ringing of ears and aching of muscles after a typical Oh Sees show) that initially, OCS was a rather hushed affair. After the minimalistic brutality of Coachwhips, the band was the diametric opposite corner of John Dwyer 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 had gone on all night and continued into the morning and everyone s raspy from talking too much and 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 into the Oh Sees everyone knows. For the 20th Oh Sees release, 100th Castle Face title, and 20th year doing it, Dwyer 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 Dwyer 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.

Tracklisting:
1.Memory Of A Cut Off Head Ocs
2.Cannibal Planet Ocs
3.The Remote Viewer Ocs
4.The Baron Sleeps And Dreams Ocs
5.On And On Corridor Ocs
6.Neighbor To None Ocs
7.The Fool Ocs
8.The Chopping Block Ocs
9.Time Tuner Ocs
10.Lift A Finger By The Garden Path Ocs

Vinyl release of OCS - Memory Of A Cut Off Head. Released through CASTLE FACE and available on 2LP.


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OCS - Memory Of A Cut Off Head (2LP)
Cat No: CF100X
Barcode: 814867025362
Packaging: 2LP
SKU 4834651
Barcode # 814867025362
Artist OCS
Artist/Author OCS
Shipping weight 0.7950kg
Format 2LP

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