Exclusive: OSEES mastermind John Dwyer walks us through 'A Foul Form,' the band’s harsh ode to classic hardcore and lo-fi punk. Read the interview and hear the album 24 hours early:
set included four covers from Black Flag’s early days, while the second Levitation set included a handful of covers from L.A. weirdo-punk pioneers Chrome.
On the new record, the band rips through 10 no-bullshit, lo-fi punk ragers in just 22 minutes. Each track pares things down to pay homage to hardcore’s beautiful simplicity while working in menacing, bad-trip electronics to shake off any illusion of this record being a simple genre exercise. In the recording of, Dwyer explains that he wanted to honor the up-front dry drum sounds of those early punk records from bands like Rudimentary Peni, as well as their peers Crass and The Subhumans.
For his demented guitar sound on the record, Dwyer’s secret to the scuzz was plugging in directly to a Tekton Tweeter Array. This midrange speaker cabinet is generally used as a loudspeaker for events, rather than the vintage tube amps he uses live and on other projects, creating a disorienting, buzz-like effect. “The guitars are loud, but they’re really thin. There’s not a lot of body in them,” he explains. “That was a really fun trick.
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