{"id":521,"date":"2010-02-04T09:16:33","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/?p=521"},"modified":"2010-02-04T09:16:33","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:16:33","slug":"review-thee-oh-sees-dog-poison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/2010\/02\/04\/review-thee-oh-sees-dog-poison\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: Thee Oh Sees &#8211; Dog Poison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THEE OH SEES<br \/>\n<em>Dog Poison<br \/>\n<\/em><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-520\" title=\"theeohsees-dogpoison\" src=\"http:\/\/stylusmagazine.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/theeohsees-dogpoison.jpg\" alt=\"theeohsees-dogpoison\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/>In the two years I\u2019ve been listening to Thee Oh Sees, I\u2019ve gone back and bought up everything Dwyer\u2019s done in this incarnation\u2014over 15 objects (from two-song 7\u201d records to LP and CD sets with 20-plus tracks). One thing they can\u2019t be accused of is settling on a sound. Gone on this album are the fuzzed-off freakouts parts from <em>Help<\/em>, continuing on with a mellower, more Monkee-ish direction the band has hinted at on the dozen or so 7\u201d releases since and given us a ten-song mini album of distorted, funky beach-pop. But it\u2019s still definitely Thee Oh Sees. \u201cSugar Boat\u201d is the nicest, most Beatlesy pop song they\u2019ve done, and \u201cI Can\u2019t Pay You to Disappear\u201d has that crazy echoed-distorto guitar thing that\u2019s Dwyer\u2019s sonic autograph (you\u2019ll know what I mean when you hear it). The double-falsettos in \u201cThe Sun Goes All Around\u201d are pretty, but they can\u2019t help but make me laugh (check out <em>The Hounds of Foggy Notion<\/em> CD\/DVD and you\u2019ll find the humour). This album didn\u2019t rock me like the last two did, and that\u2019s OK; <em>The Master\u2019s Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In<\/em> was a speed-fueled change from anything before, and <em>Help<\/em> pulled back a bit into the \u201960s. Still, the band can do whatever they want and it always turns out fantastic. Pity it all clocks in at less than 25 minutes. People bitch and joke about quality, about how J.D. releases every song he records. To anyone who wants the band to keep putting out <em>Master\u2019s Bedroom<\/em>, it\u2019s happened already. Let go, move on. And who gives a shit what them kids say anyway? Thee Oh Sees are the best band alive. If they keep pressin\u2019, I\u2019ll keep buyin\u2019! (Captured Tracks, <a href=\"www.capturedtracks.com\">www.capturedtracks.com<\/a>) <strong>Patrick Michalishyn<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THEE OH SEES Dog Poison In the two years I\u2019ve been listening to Thee Oh Sees, I\u2019ve gone back and bought up everything Dwyer\u2019s done in this incarnation\u2014over 15 objects (from two-song 7\u201d records to LP and CD sets with 20-plus tracks). One thing they can\u2019t be accused of is settling on a sound. Gone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[999],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-thee-oh-sees"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ckuw.ca\/stylus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}