A Foul Form

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A Foul Form
Osees foul form.jpeg
Studio album by
ReleasedAugust 12, 2022 (2022-08-12)
StudioStu Stu Studio
Genre
Length21:54
Label Castle Face
Producer John Dwyer
Osees chronology
Panther Rotate
(2020)
A Foul Form
(2022)
Intercepted Message
(2023)
Singles from A Foul Form
  1. "Funeral Solution"
    Released: May 16, 2022
  2. "Perm Act"
    Released: June 24, 2022
  3. "A Foul Form"
    Released: July 19, 2022
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 79/100 [2]
Review scores
SourceRating
Louder Than War 4.5/5 [3]
Pitchfork 7.0/10 [4]

A Foul Form is the twenty-seventh studio album by American garage rock band Osees, released on August 12, 2022, by Castle Face Records. [5] Continuing the return to the faster, more aggressive punk sound that the band explored on Protean Threat, the album was described by frontman John Dwyer as "an homage to the punk bands we grew up on." [6]

Contents

Background and recording

Inspired by a shared love of punk bands like Crass, Black Flag, and The Stooges, the band recorded and mixed the album entirely at frontman John Dwyer's home basement studio. Dwyer employed various studio techniques that were used in the recordings of various 70's and 80's punk albums, including using minimal amounts of reverb, miking the drums with as few microphones as possible, and plugging guitars straight into a midrange public address system instead of a guitar tube amplifier. [7] Dwyer finished recording vocals and mixing the album over Christmas 2021 while sick with COVID-19, noting that the timing of symptoms gave harsher qualities to his vocal performance, as well as focusing his mixing efforts. [8]

Track listing

A Foul Form track listing
No.TitleLength
1."Funeral Solution"1:52
2."Frock Block"1:37
3."Too Late for Suicide"3:30
4."A Foul Form"1:51
5."A Burden Snared"1:21
6."Scum Show"1:49
7."Fucking Kill Me"1:40
8."Perm Act"3:52
9."Social Butt"3:20
10."Sacrifice" (originally by Rudimentary Peni)1:02
Total length:21:54

Personnel

Credits adapted from vinyl record sleeve.

Osees

Technical personnel

Charts

Chart performance for A Foul Form
Chart (2022)Peak
position
Australian Digital Albums (ARIA) [9] 44
Scottish Albums (OCC) [10] 20
UK Album Downloads (OCC) [11] 39
UK Independent Albums (OCC) [12] 6
UK Rock & Metal Albums (OCC) [13] 2

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