Abomination Revealed At Last. Amazing title, right? Even before you see that bugged-out cover art, it conjures images of rubbery ’50s sci-fi monsters who lash out at the world because nobody understands them. It implies sympathy, but that sympathy might not be what OSEES, the prolific rock ‘n’ institution once known as Thee Oh Sees, have in mind. Instead, bandleader John Dwyer says that their new LP “was channeled out of the mist of atrocities swirling around the planet right now — AI empathy, genocides, social media data collection and addiction, the alignment of tech billionaires with the fascist overlords and their armada of dogs, civilians being kidnapped by bootlicking thugs, the death of due process… the list goes on and on. It’s been a long year already.” It sure has, buddy. But sometimes, there is cause for celebration, and OSEES’ music works for that, too.
