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Generally favorable reviews- based on 11 Ratings

  • Artist(s): Thee Oh Sees
  • Summary: John Dwyer and company return with yet another name change for its 23rd album.
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Sep 17, 2020
    80
    This album is a success, albeit one that does little to distance itself from the releases that came before it. Each track shares the percussive and wonky tone of Face Stabber but Dwyer knowingly infuses enough melody into the highlights to make for a few key standouts.
  2. Sep 18, 2020
    80
    It's just as weird, fiery, hooky, strange, and avant-punk as anything they've released; the unbroken hot streak they're on continues to throw off sparks like an overheating amp that's about to catch fire.
  3. Classic Rock Magazine
    Oct 14, 2020
    80
    Thirteen songs, 40 minutes and not a moment wasted. [Nov 2020, p.84]
  4. Sep 22, 2020
    75
    The blistering garage punk, hazy psychedelia, and Krautrock synth noodling that have come to form the pillars of Osees’ music are all tightly packed into concise forms and delivered at a brisk pace here. Fortunately, the tracks do not feel truncated. In stripping the indulgences back, the band delivers the best aspects of their fuzzy guitar freakouts without sacrificing the groove-based jams.
  5. Sep 15, 2020
    70
    Even though Protean Threat proves to be an adventurous, quirky and downright strange album at times, Osees manage keep the whole thing sonically grounded and consumable, all while keeping Dwyer's winning streak impossibly alive.
  6. 60
    A record that otherwise skids wildly across art-rock history leaving steaming tyre tracks in its wake.
  7. The Wire
    Nov 6, 2020
    50
    As per usual after listening to an Oh Sees release, I’m impressed by the execution but left cold and hollow by their studious style. [Oct 2020, p.59]

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  1. Jun 19, 2021
    9
    This band does just not let up. Scorching punk rock guitar bliss topped off with hilarious lyrics! You either love this or I am sorry toThis band does just not let up. Scorching punk rock guitar bliss topped off with hilarious lyrics! You either love this or I am sorry to inform you that you don't like to rock. Expand