Thee Oh Sees began the 2010s with Warm Slime, a fun little romp of a record; its thirteen-plus minute title track was the band's first stab at an epic, an admitted homage to the LP-side-hogging songs of '60s psych-prog like "Yoo Doo Right" and "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida". Nine years and eleven albums later, Dwyer and co. closed out the decade by unleashing Face Stabber into the world. This monster of an album is the culmination of Oh Sees' prog-rock era: eighty overblown (in a fucking awesome way) minutes of labyrinthine, fuzzed-out jams, with some mosh-pit madness thrown in ("Gholü" and "Heartworm").
1. The Daily Heavy (7:49)
2. The Experimenter (5:22)
3. Face Stabber (2:44)
4. Snickersnee (3:46)
5. Fu Xi (5:19)
6. Scutum & Scorpius (14:24)
7. Gholü (1:51)
8. Poisoned Stones (3:55)
9. Psy-Ops Dispatch (4:03)
10. S.S. Luker's Mom (2:08)
11. Heartworm (1:56)
12. Together Tomorrow (1:34)
13. Captain Loosely (4:24)
14. Henchlock (21:01)
Music videos
Poisoned Stones
Heartworm
Captain Loosely
Together Tomorrow
The Daily Heavy
Snickersnee
Gholü
Henchlock
Misc
KCRW, August 18, 2019: Henry Rollins brings JPD and Castle Face co-head honcho Matt Jones onto his show and plays the album in its entirety, occasionally pausing between tracks to interview them.
KEXP, October 5, 2019: Nite Expo, C, Snickersnee, Together Tomorrow, Henchlock