Osees - SORCS 80 (UK Indies Only Transparent Coke Bottle Green with Magenta / Green Splatter Vinyl)

Underground icons completely reinvent their line-up with brass and percussion into a new hot and raw sci-fi sound 

Think Dexy’s Midnight Runners meets Von LMO meets The Flesh Eaters meets the Screamers

This album was a self imposed ambitious project for us. Something to kick in the creative flow. The last few years, having been a challenging time in general, felt like a good time for a pivot. The last two albums were so guitar and keyboard centric, I wanted a weird and fun set of parameters for us to work with. I demo’d everything at home on cassette 4 track (harkening back to simpler times) using drum loops, and just had at it 'til I had a pile of “songs”.

Tom and I chose one sound each using synths and created a range of 3 octaves of that sample, then loaded them into Roland SPD-SX samplers and learned the transcribed songs using drum sticks. The idea was to change the way we wrote and to have 4 people along the front of the stage essentially playing percussion. So no guitar, no keys.

1. Look At The Sky 
2. Pixelated Moon 
3. Drug City 
4. Also the Gorilla... 
5. Termination Officer 
6. Blimp 
7. Cochon d’argent 
8. Cassius, Brutus & Judas 
9. Zipper 
10. Lear’s Ears 
11. Earthling 
12. Plastics 
13. Neo-Clone