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- H-ween’s over man, c’mon.
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- Hold that geetar sky-high!
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- “Blood in Your Ear” came in several different colors (mine’s black and gold).
Thee Oh Sees‘ “Blood in Your Ear” is exactly what a 7-inch should be. It presents new material that doesn’t fit on any current full-length releases and rock-ock-ocks out in the process, albeit with a bluesy lurch that goes great with echo-drenched guitar.
Replete with boot-stompin’ Howlin’ Wolf harmonica — at least in the intro — and unusually furry, feisty drumming, “Blood in Your Ear” advances the Good Shippe Oh Sees by leaps and bounds (this tune, truth be told, would have fit beautifully on Dog Poison, their recent LP on Captured Tracks). The intense repetition is almost kraut-like, too, a post-Sucks Blood straightaway ending the A-side with a pinch of class.
“Friends Defined” freaks me out because it sounds EXACTLY LIKE “Invisible Forces” by The Fresh & Onlys, as played by The Intelligence. ZANG-ZOOM! I mean it, too; the bassline, the chords, the tempo (maybe a bit faster) the vocals are dead ringers.
Perhaps John Dwyer bet Tim Cohen he could come up with a tune even catchier than his mini-hit from Grey-Eyed Girls.
Perhaps not. Either way this is a 7-inch worth pinching if you got a garage-rock itch as I do. Oh lord, as I do.
