Agreed, can’t wait to spin my copy again when I get home! It’s honestly hard for me to pick a clear favorite, but I feel “The Daily Heavy” sets the albums vibe very well. I’m also in the camp that loves “Captain Loosely,” although it’s nothing I ever expected to hear on an Oh Sees album. I could see it on a Damaged Bug album.getting them out of the basement of the Gizzard thread because they deserved their own thread a long time ago.
Face Stabber rules nerds!
Spinnin’ my copy right now. Mines got a sprinkle of surface noise during the quiet ending of “Face Stabber” on Side A, but other than that it’s flat and sounds great.Face Stabber came in a week or so ago, but I haven't had a chance to listen to it yet. How's everyone else's copy? I went the blue version.
The gatefold is giant! It's a nice package with the printed inners and the art is great this time around.
Album recommendations for you—Floating Coffin, A Weird Exits, Orc, and obviously Face Stabber.I'm just starting to listen to them, but so far I've enjoyed Smote Reverser and Mutilator Defeated at Last (in digital format... we'll see if I end up liking them enough for the ol' vinyl treatment).
I have always sort of glossed over it but recently picked up Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion and really enjoy it. The movie is pretty cool too.Does anyone dig the early, psych folk Thee Oh Sees?
Definitely a different band, but it’s still great.
Every spin of Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion gets better and better.
Personally haven’t heard the early OCS albums.
I have always sort of glossed over it but recently picked up Thee Hounds of Foggy Notion and really enjoy it. The movie is pretty cool too.
Are there any plans for new Damaged Bug material?
Yeah, I'm in the process of working on some. I have like 40 songs put up right now but none of them are done. It's been a slow process but I'm working on a little secret surprise project. Basically, I was working on the 40 songs by myself for a long time and not getting anywhere.
Even though I'm happy with some of them I just couldn't get over the hump so I decided to stop working on that and work on a little pet project idea I had for Damaged Bug and that actually worked really quick because it covers and it was really easy...not easy but just much faster when you have the map laid out for you. So me and Tom Dolas, who plays keyboards right now in Oh Sees, came and worked on that with me and we made twelve songs. I'm gonna get some drummers in to play on that and then I think probably me and Brigid are gonna sing on it. I can't tell you what it is, unfortunately, but hopefully that'll be coming out next.
That's so exciting!
It's exciting for me too because it's an artist that I really love and I'm very excited to surprise them with it. It's Madonna! [laughs] That would be amazing.
[laughs] That would be so good! How long are we going to have to wait for this?
I'm hoping to have it done before the end of the year so hopefully I'll be out early next year. And then I'll finish the record that I've been working on which is just really slow coming. I'm really happy with that one too it's just I need to add some vocal content basically. Right now it's all instrumental, like 80 percent instrumental, which just won't fly.
I know other people who have it and they get nauseous from it and then they can't play music anymore because it hurts. Which would be terrible. So awful. I think maybe I got really lucky and have some like really dumb Irish ears or something. I don't know why they're not on fire right now. They should have blown up and there should be blood pouring out of them but for some reason it's been tolerable.
If anything, it means I can't hear the moron next to me in a restaurant talking so it's been a blessing in disguise for me because I'm an insufferable person as well so if I'm not yelling at some stranger in line at the bank because I can't hear them then all the better for both of us.
Is there a point of hearing loss for you where you would stop making music?
I would imagine at some point like Beethoven or something where you just put your head on the piano, I don't know. But I would paint. That was a quote from Brian Chippendale, "When I go deaf I'll just paint and read more." I was like, "That sounds good to me too, man." I'm already 44 about to be 45 this week.