Osees
Intercepted Message IN THE RED
Another year, another record, another belter.
Secondguessing Osees is a fool’s errand. You’d be within your rights to think that, following an endless stream of releases that keep coming at you like a Terminator, they’d be running in a circle of ever-diminishing returns. Well, think again. Just as it seems that they’ve been pinned down, they slip off again like a Brylcreemed snake.
On this album their fusion of punk, prog and new wave is as seamless as it is exciting. Underpinned by Tim Hellman’s prowling bass and boosted by the twin drum attack of Dan Rincon and Paul Quattrone, Tomas Dolas’s keyboards dance this way and that over and the title track, while singer-guitarist John Dyer’s downstrokes add a teethgrinding urgency. Most surprising is the gorgeous and woozy balladry of that reveals a more considered side to Osees, while finds them touching upon
