The Austin Chronicle reviews White Fence at Austin Psych Fest
“It was poetic – dozens of scorching garage rock shredders blowing our heads off from one general anonymous direction. It was delirium, the good kind…”
“It was poetic – dozens of scorching garage rock shredders blowing our heads off from one general anonymous direction. It was delirium, the good kind…”
“Part-fuzz, part-adrenaline, all garage-rock fury, “I Come From The Mountain” sounds like a swirling, rapid-fire rocker that emerged suddenly from Dwyer’s Bay Area dungeon…”
“The band’s debut 7-inch sold out almost instantly, but now “Fuzz’s Fourth Dream” from that single has received the video treatment…”
“But Mikal Cronin’s second album, MCII, mixes shambling rock with a perfectionist ear with quality control, as its star applies a beachy sparkle to 37 minutes of fresh, fun rock ‘n’ roll…”
“New Orleans husband and wife duo Quintron & Miss Pussycat managed to kill Mother Earth, use a marshmallow spaceship to travel the universe, and successfully locate the happiest place in the cosmos…”
“Empire of the Sun, Solange, Polyphonic Spree, Mac DeMarco, William Tyler, and more have been added to the lineup for this year’s Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival, taking place from June 13 to 16 in Manchester, Tennessee…”
“The Canadian performer (and oh, he does perform) has professed an interest in Weezer in interviews, so we weren’t too surprised that he and his band grabbed “Undone—The Sweater Song” …”
“San Francisco font of garage rock Ty Segall will be there, perhaps in an altogether new guise (he’ll have released three new albums by the time Pickathon weekend rolls around, no doubt)…”
“Thee Oh Sees’ music video for “Minotaur” featured some bloodshed, but it was otherwise a pretty lighthearted video…”
“If there’s any band that can get away with a video that grotesquely depicts — and arguably celebrates — murder, it’s San Francisco’s Thee Oh Sees, whose lacerating fuzz-rock evokes all sorts of primal urges…”
“Their unique live shows, a combination of homebrew instrumentation and other-worldly puppetry, have earned them fans in odd places and taken them, most recently, to the Kennedy Center…”
“Coffin is an easy, spring-appropriate listen. Something about Thee Oh Sees always sighs warm air. This album does that, too, but with hurriedly-spiked punch heavy on its breath. Drink up, Johnny.”
“…It also illustrates that there’s no pre-established blueprint for an Oh Sees album, which means there’s no telling what’s next. As usual, that’s an exciting prospect…”
“The band played a forceful bunch of songs — at least judging by the four final ones that I saw — that drove the tightly focused, crowd-surfing fans to adrenaline levels unimaginable the morning earlier…”
“But one aspect that’s often overlooked is that Thee Oh Sees mastermind John Dwyer plays a mean flute…”
“…all gorgeous harmonies and palette-cleansing strings, demonstrates a band in charge of its own weird, fuzzy destiny…”
“Frontman John Dwyer licked the mic and wielded his guitar like a bazooka, then he spotted fellow Bay Area groovie Ty Segall in the front row of the VIP section and demanded he join the band onstage…”
“The dominant mode is galloping, double-drummered, overdriven but super-tight ramalam…”
“It’s a song slathered in acid-burnt fuzz where Presley stretches out with an echoing psych guitar solo after hammering out a simple, solid power chord hook…”
“Thee Oh Sees are set to release Floating Coffin, the follow-up to 2012′s Putrifiers II, next week…”
New album from Thee Oh Sees, Floating Coffin, streaming on Pitchfork Advance.
“Given the maturity and insight of White Fence’s previous releases and his collaborations with it-boy Ty Segall, it shouldn’t shock anyone that the act’s newest record, Cyclops Reap, is quite brilliant…”
White Fence’s new album Cyclops Reap is streaming on Pitchfork Advance.
“His follow-up, ‘Cyclops Reap’, keeps the party going…”
“Tim Presley doesn’t seem to be running out of songs and this is another quality batch of paisley-scented psychedelia…
“…Death By Audio has announced the Sunshine Reverberation effects pedal, which is inspired by Ty Segall…”
“… Yes, the New Orleans ambassadors of down ‘n’ dirty “swamp tech” are on the bill for something called the New Orleans Bingo! Show, which also features the Preservation Hall Jazz Band…”
“The husband and wife duo, born Robert Rolston and Panacea Theriac, will bring their gritty and distorted swamp-tech to Club Downunder on Tuesday, April 9…”
“The husband and wife duo, born Robert Rolston and Panacea Theriac, will bring their gritty and distorted swamp-tech to Club Downunder on Tuesday, April 9…”
“Relentless, powerful, tight: This San Francisco psychedelic guitar band Thee showcases its wild, spastic rock on “Floating Coffin,” its seventh record…”