Thee Oh Sees

Thee Oh Sees (also known as OCS, Ohsees, Orinoka Crash Suite, and currently as just Oh Sees) is an American garage rock band formed in San Francisco by singer guitarist John P. Dwyer in 1997.
Originating as Dwyer's solo project while he was a member of groups such as Pink & Brown and the Coachwhips, Dwyer began the project under the name Orinoka Crash Suite, which soon was switched to OCS, releasing the first album under this name, entitled 1, in 2003. 
The first five albums featured a freak folk sound contrary to their far later work. The band became John's primary group as his other bands (Coachwhips and Ziegenbock Kopf) had both disbanded around 2005 to 2006, and it was around this time that Dwyer put a full band together and by the release of the album Sucks Blood (2007) they had left behind the freak folk and became a louder, much more abrasive garage punk outfit. 
A string of underground classics followed, The Master's Bedroom Is Worth Spending a Night In (2008), Help (2009), Dog Poison (2009), Warm Slime (2010), Castlemania (2011), Carrion Crawler/The Dream (2011), Putrifiers II (2012), and Floating Coffin (2013). 
The band then stated they would be entering a hiatus, however a new album, Drop (2014), was released to hold the fans over. They returned with Mutilator Defeated At Last (2015), which marked the beginning of the current era for the band, which continued on A Weird Exits and An Odd Entrances (both 2016), Orc (2017), even briefly returning to the OCS name and the freak folk sound with Memory Of A Cut Off Head (2017), and finally, Smote Reverser (2018) by far one of their most exilerating and heaviest to date.
The band is a known influence on King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, who is ironically objectively more popular than them now. Their song The Dream was featured on Grand Theft Auto V, on the modern/indie rock station Vinewood Boulevard Radio.
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