Artist : OCS
Album : 3 & 4 (Disc 1)
Source :
Year : 2005
Genre :
Encoder : Unknown
Codec : LAME 3.97
Bitrate : VBR ~217K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
ID3-Tag : ID3v2.3
I don’t know nothing about original releases, only the 2cd in a digipack on Narnack. Definitely if your favorite Oh Sees is Sucks Blood (which Dwyer described at a show as “mellow” and his favorite) you will enjoy this as it’s even mellower.
splendid zine sez:
OCS will come as a surprise to anyone who has spent time with John Dwyer’s other projects — Coachwhips, Pink & Brown, Hospitals and among them. Playing Dr. Jeckyll to the rest of the Dwyer catalog’s frenzied punk Mr. Hyde-isms, OCS has carved out a tranquil porch blues interlude in his career. Recorded on four-track with Dwyer singing and playing guitar and Patrick Mullins adding drums and electronics, this double CD collects 32 songs from two albums.
Dwyer labels 3 as “Songs about Death and Dying”, while 4 is subtitled “OCS Get Stoved”, but the two discs seem remarkably similar. They share the peculiar fuzzy intimacy of home recording, where the music sounds as if it’s right next to you, but is oddly distorted. It’s like someone is singing in your ear through layers of white cotton — but far from detracting from the experience, it actually adds a layer of mystery and remove. The songs are simply constructed — “Tower and Wall” from 4 is built on an age-old gospel melody augmented with shuffling drums, while 3’s “Oh No Bloody Nose” is the purest kind of 1960s folk — and played and sung without irony. Though almost all of the material is original, the two covers give a hint about where Dwyer is coming from: Donovan’s “Get Thy Bearings” receives a lurching, heavily rhythmic underpinning, while blueswoman Elisabeth Cotten’s “Oh Babe It Ain’t No Lie” is translucently, gorgeously hypnotic. On this track and others, Dwyer’s voice is unexpectedly fragile, breathy, tuneful, entirely at odds with the punk screams that Coachwhips fans have come to expect from him. The guitar work is quite strong as well, particularly “Head” and “Head 2″‘s ghostly slide and “Second Date”‘s tremoloed shimmer. There seems to be a bit less electronic experimentation going on here than in 2; the songs take precedence and the beauty that once seemed almost accidental is brought front and center.
These are lovely songs, simple and unpretentious, eccentric and willfully different from whatever you’re expecting. The Coachwhips are dead. Long live OCS.
Track Listing
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1. If I Had a Reason (3:20)
2. Second Date (3:17)
3. The Pool (2:22)
4. Burning Beauties (1:48)
5. Rescue (2:10)
6. Here I Come (2:35)
7. Greedy Happens (2:50)
8. Hey Kid (1:50)
9. Bicycle (3:05)
10. Split the Take (3:03)
11. I’m Coming Home (2:41)
12. Oh No Bloody Nose (1:34)
13. Lili & Me (1:55)
14. I am Slow (2:51)
Total Playing Time: 35:28 (min:sec)
Total Size : 55.1 MB (57,731,611 bytes)
Artist : OCS
Album : 3 & 4 (Disc 2)
Source :
Year : 2005
Genre :
Encoder : Unknown
Codec : LAME 3.97
Bitrate : VBR ~216K/s 44100Hz Joint Stereo
ID3-Tag : ID3v2.3
Track Listing
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1. Wait All Nite (2:25)
2. Devil’s Last Breath (1:14)
3. Tower & the Wall (3:09)
4. Friends of St. Thomas (1:53)
5. Along the Way (1:46)
6. Crime on My Mind (3:14)
7. Get Thy Bearings (2:21)
8. Harmony & Bells (2:45)
9. Head 2 (1:43)
10. Begining Burning (2:39)
11. Head (0:56)
12. Cookie Destroyer (2:14)
13. Oh Babe, It Ain’t No Lie (2:23)
14. Dreadful Heart (3:03)
Total Playing Time: 31:52 (min:sec)
Total Size : 48.1 MB (50,486,623 bytes)