Osees went back to the jam room for this one. Extended group improvisations got carved into five tracks that lean harder on organ and dual drummers than on the riff-driven garage rock that made them a fixture. The title piece and Hecate's Reflection sprawl past seven minutes each, built from repetition and slow accumulation rather than verse-chorus momentum. Krautrock gets cited often with this band, but here it actually fits: motorik drums, cycling bass, John Dwyer's guitar tracing patterns instead of solos. Tom Dolas adds keys throughout and Brigid Dawson returns on vocals, thickening the sound without smoothing it out.
The shorter cuts hit harder. The Trick compresses the same hypnotic churn into three minutes. Syringe pushes tempo and distortion until it nearly tips into punk, then pulls back. The Brute On His Knees closes with a melodic hook that feels like a callback to older records, though the arrangement stays loose and live-sounding. Recorded between Sonic Ranch and Dwyer's home setup, mixed by Dwyer himself, mastered by JJ Golden.
This will suit anyone already deep into the band's catalogue, especially the weirder turns. Less accessible than their straight-ahead garage records, more song-focused than their pure noise experiments. If you want krautrock that still sounds like a rock band and not a library music project, it delivers.
