John Dwyer has a surprise… While everyone eagerly anticipates the next Oh Sees record, he’s been working tirelessly in his synth laboratory, hand-crafting a followup to last year’s neon-noir Damaged Bug debut—one that shakes up the snow globe considerably. If Hubba Bubba was a brush with a robotic exoskeleton on deep-space patrol, Cold Hot Plumbs visits the alien world that sent it into the cosmos. Lush, textural and psychedelic, the songs breathe with a otherworldly sadness and heart. Barbed, sophisticated arrangements flower in every direction. The vintage-perfect sound palette would be window dressing if not for the songs themselves: fresh, vital, and above all catchier than the flu. Cold Hot Plumbs is a strange, beautiful, and oddly infectious addition to Dwyer’s oeuvre, and not one to be missed.
Track Listing:
#2 What Cheer
#3 The Mirror
#4 Jet In Jungle
#5 Der Mond
#6 The Frog
#7 Cough Pills
#8 Structure Image Exterior (edit)
#9 Grape Basement
#10 Very
#11 Cone
#12 Deep Bore Drill Worker
#13 Mega Structure
#14 Transmute