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OSEES
Levitation Sessions II, Los Angeles, April 10
John Dwyer’s psych outlaws stage a raucous showdown in an abandoned factory
John Dwyer’s
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THE late afternoon sun streams through the windows of the old industrial building in Los Angeles where John Dwyer’s OSees have set up for their latest livestream. Dwyer has selected a series of striking locations for these shows: a frontier town in the southern Californian desert or outside the Henry Miller Library in Big Sur. On this occasion he’s moved indoors, and the cavernous brick walls and concrete floor of the factory add a thundering, industrial sheen to a set crammed with springy Osees rockers like “Tidal Wave”, “Snickersnee” and “Poisoned Stones”. Songs like these have poured relentlessly out of Dwyer’s singular imagination for more than a decade, and this set finds him reaching deep into his past for a mixture of rippers, deep cuts and covers.