Damaged Bug Cold Hot Plumbs CD

John Dwyer has a surprise... While everyone eagerly anticipates the next Oh Sees record, he's been working tirelessly in his synth laboratory, hand-crafting a follow-up to last year's debut-one that shakes up the snow globe considerably. If Hubba Bubba was a brush with a robotic exoskeleton on deep-space patrol, 2015?s Cold Hot Plumbs visits the alien world that sent it into the cosmos. Lush, textural and psychedelic, the songs breathe with a otherworldly sadness and heart. Barbed, sophisticated arrangements flower in every direction. The vintage-perfect sound palette would be window dressing if not for the songs themselves: fresh, vital, and above all catchier than the flu. Cold Hot Plumbs is a strange, beautiful, and oddly infectious addition to Dwyer's oeuvre, and not one to be missed. Ed.

1. Exactly What You Think 2. What Cheer 3. The Mirror 4. Jet in Jungle 5. Der Mond 6. The Frog 7. Cough Pills 8. Structure Image Exterior (Edit) 9. Grape Basement 10. Very 11. Cone 12. Deep Bore Drill Worker 13. Mega Structure 14. Transmute