Osees 'Protean Threat' (ALBUM REVIEW)

At this point it's almost too easy for John Dwyer. The man responsible for a garage-rock outfit so psychedelic it is now on its eighth near-identical name (currently Osees, previously The Ohsees, The Oh Sees, Thee Oh Sees, and Oh Sees and before that Orinoka Crash Suite, OCS, Orange County Sound) seems to have broken free of anything vaguely normal and entered the state… beyond.

Fontaines DC 'A Hero's Death' (ALBUM REVIEW)

One of the most striking things about Fontaines DC's breakthrough last year was the quivering joie de vivre of a band carefree enough to call a song 'Sha Sha Sha'. But there's next to none of that here; second album A Hero's Death is jaded, at times gloomy and at times almost cynical.