Lav's Music Corner

Two weeks of Best New Track being released early/on time, it must be a miracle. Enjoy <3 5.  A Foul Form  - Thee Oh Sees On this brief new Oh Sees track they really only need around a minute and a half to make this crushing distorted haze of a song which somehow also manages to have nearly chant-along refrains. It almost sounds like it's coming from another band with another sound entirely but if this is just a taste, it certainly feels like a worthwhile direction to explore.  Listen 4.  TV  - Billie Eilish Billie dropped a pair of new acoustic cuts this week, the better of which is TV  a gentle meditation on how a romantic relationship can pull you away from your friends. It's honest and raw both sonically and thematically and represents a the climb up a mountain for Billie acoustic songs from being the real duds of her debut album, to some of the highlights on her sophomore album and now some of her best work.  Listen 3.  Orange County Punk R...

At the 11th hour, I returned home from vacation having only recently remembered I had to write and publish the best tracks of the week. Here they are. Enjoy <3. 5. 2001 - Foals While Foals have basically been in their dance-rock era for quite a while now they finally leaned heavily into the disco influence on this track and made their best single from this era. It's certainly not complicated and I wouldn't say it has much of the extravagant rush that you might expect from a good Foals track, but it's bouncy and charming in the way the good disco revival music has to be.  Listen 4. Funeral Solution  - Thee Oh Sees After not loving the last few Oh Sees records, this was a punch in the face that I was excited for. The band needs less than two minutes to absolutely pummel you with chugging riffs, short screamed vocal refrains and an absolutely filthy mix. This one is simple, it will crush you, you should let it. Listen 3. Through The Fires  - Angel Olsen Angel Olsen delive...

Thee Oh Sees are a California rock band who have been releasing a constant stream of music under a number of different names for nearly 15 years now. The only steady member of the group is frontman John Dwyer and since changing their name to just "Oh Sees" in 2017 they have dropped three records that have all dabbled in experimental and unconventional rock sounds, a sonic element that began for the band with their two records in 2016. This act of the groups career have brought them into a new light within the world of indie music that has come paired with consistent critical acclaim leading up to Face Stabber . Review By Lavender: I would never really have considered myself a fan of Thee Oh Sees despite enjoying some of their recent music. Albums like A Weird Exits  and Smote Reverser  may not have been perfect but they pushed the envelope enough to stay interesting and create a few tracks that jammed. But more than ever before on Face Stabber  a lot of the time is...