“The Dream” by Thee Oh Sees

"The Dream" gives half its name to Carrion Crawler/The Dream, the record Thee Oh Sees put out on In the Red Records in November 2011: their twelfth studio album and a full-length by any clock, even if the vinyl insists it's an EP. The San Francisco garage rockers cut it live over five days at The Hangar in Sacramento, with frequent collaborator Chris Woodhouse recording and mixing, and they brought in Lars Finberg of The Intelligence as a second drummer for the sessions.

John Dwyer set the record against the vocal tirade of Castlemania: this one, he said, was meant to pummel and throb. Two drummers and a band playing live in the room is a fair way to get there.

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