Carrion Crawler / The Dream by Thee Oh Sees

Carrion Crawler/The Dream, the twelfth studio album from San Francisco's Thee Oh Sees, came out on In the Red on November 8, 2011, and it's a sprint from start to finish. By now John Dwyer's old solo project had grown into a full-blown garage rock gang, with Brigid Dawson on keyboards and backing vocals, Petey Dammit on bass and guitar, and both Mike Shoun and Lars Finberg on drums, and you can hear every one of them pushing.

The songs lock into relentless, hypnotic grooves that owe as much to krautrock as to the garage, with Dwyer yelping over fuzzed-out guitar and the whole band thundering along as if the tape might run out. Oddly, the vinyl pressings call it an EP, though it runs as long as most of their full albums. It stands with The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In and Floating Coffin among the band's acclaimed records.

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