''A Weird Exits'' is the seventeenth studio album by American

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Thee Oh Sees Osees are an American rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1997, now based in Los Angeles, California. The band currently consists of primary songwriter and core member John Dwyer (vocals, guitar), Tim Hellman (bass), Dan Rincon (d ...

, released on August 12, 2016, on

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. It is the first studio album to feature drummers Ryan Moutinho and Dan Rincon, who joined the band in 2015 to tour in support of the band's previous album, '' Mutilator Defeated at Last''. ''A Weird Exits'' was the first of two studio albums released by Thee Oh Sees in 2016, with a companion album, entitled ''

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'', released on November 18, 2016.

Background and recording

During breaks from the band's extensive tour in support of '' Mutilator Defeated at Last'', the band would jam new song ideas at rehearsals, with vocalist and guitarist

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recording the ideas onto a cassette to listen to and choose his favourite ideas. The album and its companion, ''

'', was mostly recorded as a live band with the band's regular engineer and collaborator Chris Woodhouse. Regarding the recording process drummer Ryan Moutinho noted, "We recorded all of that in three days. Actually... I'm going to say four, but I really think it was three. I was really sick. I had a one-hundred-and-twenty degree fever and was vomiting. I recorded the whole record in a hoody, with the hood up. We went in there, did that, and then me, Tim

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and Dan inconall went home, and John stayed and finished it."

Release

The album had two special vinyl editions made: the "Murky Web" edition, limited to 1700 copies, and the "Bloodshot Eyeball" edition, limited to 300 copies. A third was released in the UK, simply titled "Green".

Critical reception

''A Weird Exits'' received widespread acclaim from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 82 based on 19 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". Writing for

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, Tim Sendra praised the album's variety, John Dwyer's guitar playing and the band's consistent output: "With ''

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'', and now this album, the band is firing on all cylinders and then some, making psych-prog-metal-punk jams for the ages."

Accolades

Track listing

Personnel

Thee Oh Sees *John Dwyer – guitar, vocals, Mellotron, synths, moisturizer, flute, percussion *Tim Hellman – bass *Dan Rincon – drums *Ryan Moutinho – drums Additional personnel *Brigid Dawson – vocals on "The Axis" *Chris Woodhouse – drums, organ, guitar, percussion *Greer McGitrick – cello on "Crawl Out from the Fall Out"

Charts

References

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