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Oh Sees “Jettison”

John Dwyer won’t ever let you down. If you come to an Oh Sees record looking for grooves and riffs and “wooo!” and relentless forward momentum, you’re absolutely going to get those things in some combination. Much like The Fall and Clinic before them, they know what their aesthetic is, and the variation is in the details. In the case of Oh Sees, they’re still riding out the possibilities of their double drummer lineup, and so a song like “Jettison” which would be just fine with a single drummer gets this added kinetic motion that emphasizes a restlessness in the guitar parts. The drums don’t really signal tension – there’s a relaxing swing to the groove – but they do give you this feeling that the music is in constant motion, like it’s a musical shark that needs to keep moving forward to survive.

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