Last night I had the pleasure of hearing the latest Oh Sees record, Cool Death Of Island Raiders at a friends house. We were drinking on the back porch with the stereo speakers in the living room angled towards us and the music was just audible between conversations. Eventually I had to excuse myself to go inside and get a better listen.

Oh Sees (formerly OCS) is the latest musical venture of San Francisco’s prolific John Dwyer (Pink&Brown, Coachwhips), and its a drastic departure from the cartoon noise and gutter garage rock he’s made in previous bands.

Oh Sees music is wispy and frail folk with the only hints of Dwyer’s raucous roots showing up in the densely lo-fi production and the occasionally crass song titles. It’s beautiful, broken pop music from an unlikely source, definitely worth checking out.