Thee Oh Sees

Add Date: July 5 

Artist: Thee Oh Sees 

Album: Castlemania 

Label: In the Red 

Genre: Rock, garage, psych pop 

Comments: John Dwyer, the driving force behind San Francisco's Thee Oh Sees, seems to have way too many ideas floating in his head, and he's determined to cram them all into a 16-song, 42-minute LP. And yet, somehow, it works. Castlemania starts off with a few murky garage rock songs and ends up with some glorious psych pop--including a delightful cover of "I Won't Hurt You" from the forgotten '60s act The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band--and the album includes everything in between, all of it loosely connected by the band's lo-fi psychedelic haze.

If you like classic psych pop (think The 13th Floor Elevators) or modern peddlers like Ty Segall--who lends his vocals to a couple of tracks on the record--or Black Lips, then check out Castlemania. Start with tracks 9, 15, 6, 14 and 4.