Name: Oh Yeah?
Brand: Sunwatchers

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TIM153cd

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Limited edition

Release date

2020-05-27

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Sales:8.875

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630125982303

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Sunwatchers

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New Psyche & Psyche Rock

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Trouble in Mind

Sunwatchers is an experimental rock band known for their eclectic sound and captivating live performances. Drawing inspiration from a diverse range of genres including jazz, punk, and psychedelia, *Sunwatchers* create a unique blend of improvisation and structured composition. Their music is characterized by intricate guitar riffs, hypnotic saxophone melodies, and driving rhythms that take listeners on a sonic journey. With influences ranging from *Writhing Squares* to *John Dwyer*, Sunwatchers have carved out their own distinct sound in the contemporary music scene.

Formed in [year], Sunwatchers quickly gained recognition for their dynamic and energetic live shows. The band's lineup consists of [band members], who bring their individual musical backgrounds and talents to create a cohesive and powerful sound. Known for their improvisational skills, each performance by Sunwatchers is a unique experience that showcases the band's ability to push boundaries and explore new sonic territories.

In addition to their captivating live performances, Sunwatchers have released several critically acclaimed albums that further showcase their innovative approach to music-making. Their discography includes *[album names]* among others, which have received praise for their genre-defying soundscapes and thought-provoking lyrics.

Despite (perhaps) being the band’s most accessible and melodic work to date, New York quartet Sunwatchers‘ fourth album arrives in a flurry of notes with the buzzing hum of “Sunwatchers vs. Tooth Decay”; the title referencing a 1976 album featuring athlete and activist Muhammad Ali. A cheeky nod to be sure, but laced with the utmost reverence. This attitude sums up Sunwatchers’ aesthetic in a nutshell; the acknowledgement (typically via the band’s irreverent song titles or album art) that the things in life we should take seriously are better faced and understood when disarmed by a wink or nudge. The band may cloak their fiery activism in a jester’s outfit, but it does nothing to dull the force of their attack. The one-two punch of Love Paste and Brown Ice hits next, with the former’s tender opening melody punctuated by exuberant “WOO!”s while the latter launches into an urgent, stuttering march that utilizes an effective musical wind-up and release, ratcheting up a ferocious intensity across its near six minute runtime. Thee Worm Store closes out the first side, beginning with a lumbering synth growl, until it picks up speed and ends as a frantic noisy free-for-all. Side two strides forth with The Conch, an obvious Lord of The Flies reference, and a delicious subversion of the idea of a “hero’s anthem” weighted down by the trappings of tribalism. The album’s showstopper however is The Earthsized Thumb, the near twenty-minute closing track. Guitarist Jim McHugh lays down a hypnotic Saharan guitar melody as the rest of the band ushers themselves in one by one over the tune’s distinct musical movements, a “Quick One” for all the heads perhaps?

The album’s title Oh Yeah? is at once an homage to Mingus, Thee Oh Sees’ album Help (whose Brigid Dawson hand-sewed the tapestry adorning the album’s front cover) and (naturally) the rallying cry of KoolBrave himself - the Kool-Aid Man-as-Braveheart avatar the band adopted as their symbol. The three years since the band’s second album (and TiM debut) II was released, has seen the band grace stages across the USA and Europe, enlisting more comrades in their mission of solidarity (sonically speaking) with every show.

Oh Yeah?

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