Thee Oh Sees - Floating Coffin

Gong Splat is his best in this vein yet, strong Lawrence Of newark vibes

Saw Osees this weekend, it was a terrific show. Pretty killer setlist, mostly focused from Drop era stuff onwards to the latest albums.

Apparently these guys are big among the King Gizz crowd... SO MANY younger kids in King Gizz shirts at the show, including a trio of people in matching King Gizz hockey jerseys.

If you thought King Gizzard was big with OSees fans try going to a Ween show!

Have never seen these guys because as far as I can tell they haven't been to the DC/Baltimore area in well over a decade. They must really hate it.

Castle Face put out an early Gizz record and I believe put on shows/played with them on their early trips to the US. And there's a lot of similarities between early Gizz and mid-period Osees - the double drums, the FX-laced high register guitars, even the echo-laden yelps that punctuate both bands' sets.

Oh yeah, I can see why they'd like both bands, just surprised by how much King Gizz swag was in the crowd.

Anyway, back to Osees, it was my first time seeing them and I don't know that I could have asked for a better setlist. The way they put Rincon and Quattrone right up front really helps emphasize the heft and drive they bring to the band.

I was at the same show, jon (assuming you're referring to the Saturday show, as I also saw the hockey jerseys)! It was great. My brother and a rotating group of companions have been coming to town to see them every September for a number of years but this was my first time back (and my first live show period) since before the pandemic. Fantastic way to break the seal.

Yep, I was indeed at the Saturday show.

I'm seeing them at Gonerfest in a couple weeks and really psyched about it, amazed to realize its been close to 10 years since the last time. From 2008-2014 I used to make a point to catch them whenever I could, but as they started graduating to fests and bigger venues they stopped coming through my neck of the woods. Happy that it sounds like the set will be mostly stuff I've never heard live.