Osees Unveil Surprise Album “Off Course”

Don’t let John Dwyer’s relentless output cause you to overlook his work. In the first half of this year, the California psychedelic garage‑punk maestro launched the side project Heathen Axe, released a solo album as Damaged Bug, and dropped a surprise EP from his primary band, Osees. Now a full Osees LP has arrived.

Off Course, the new Osees record released today, contains only five tracks, but several run long, and Dwyer classifies it as an album. It takes listeners on a cohesive journey, with songs that are playful, funky, and hallucinatory—reminding us how much King Gizzard owes to this crew. Dwyer explains the record grew out of endless jam sessions, a technique the Osees hadn’t used in some time:

We went back to an older method of writing for this one.
We jammed and jammed and jammed.
I took the tapes home and ironed out some mutant tunes.
We went back into the studio and burned them to tape live, then I took them to Stu‑Stu‑Studio, added vocals, and brought in Tom Dolas & Brigid Dawson to finish them.
Spice is always nice.

Mixed it all up in the cauldron and thus we have a strange brew indeed.
Floating in the smoke we have a couple long jams, a couple short jams, and a finale that will dump a bucket of earworms on you (reminiscent of “the axis”?).
Dip your toe in organ rock and roll.

So without further ado, we present to you “OFF COURSE,” an album wondering where the fuck are we and how did we get here—a signal dispatched into the darkness.

We are here. We are alive. And we are together.

CHEERS NO EARS
JPD/DG/OSEES

Listen below.

Off Course is out now on Deathgod. Purchase it here.

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