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Thee Oh Sees' forthcoming album – their 14th full-length – is also their best, a set of wired freakbeat and fried pop that swings between haunting, lilting drug pop and frantic garage-rock rushes that pulse to driving motorik grooves and Dwyer and co-singer Brigid Dawson's harmonies, daubed in echo and splattered with feedback.
Pond has form at least, having named earlier albums Psychedelic Mango, Corridors of Blissterday, and Hobo Rocket, but the idea that this gently fried pop is any way transformative feels off the mark.
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Diners might pop fried hunks of blowfish tail, marvel at a sardine woven into a potato chip, and learn that kataifi is shredded phyllo dough, all before dinner even begins.
Like a lot (most?) of whites, they operate as if they have no stake in racism, as if it's something that happens somewhere else, say, in the heart of those Southern-fried villains who pop up in movies.
Dr. Ian Smith begged a group of fried chicken-loving, pop-swilling diabetic church ladies to change their ways.
I wrote the names of foods I wished I were eating, and the list eventually contained what must have been every edible thing I could think of, including fried shrimp, brown-sugar Pop-Tarts, and frogs' legs.
The question isn't "why eat insects?", it's "how are we going to eat insects?" Is "protein flour" going to seem more or less disgusting than just popping a fried cricket into your mouth?
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