Formed 1997 in San Francisco, Thee Oh Sees are one of the main purveyors of modern garage rock, On this album, it is a bit of a departure from some of their their other recordings and not as great as others such as Help or Floating Coffin( but it still has some great great songs). As with their other recordings, this is made to be heard on vinyl. It still sounds great on other mediums as well.John Dwer, the frontman and founder plays the instruments on most of the tracks but there still is quite a few of other musicians as well. Dwer was also the former frontman for the Coachwhips.There is definite homages to early Pink Floyd, Can, Neu, psych Rollings Stones, etc. It is groovy and a good kind of sloppy with equal parts noise and order. Personally I think it is about half great songs and half okay songs. The stand out songs are track 1 "Penetrating Eye" ,track 2 "Encrypted Bounce, track 3 "Savage Victory", track 8 "Transparent World" Track 9 "The Lens". In fact, this would probably be a good intro to the band, This was another album I kind of randomly chose to review and I like it.Space Garage. Rhett Taylor
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