Do Pas O’s debut album isn’t just an LP-length barrage of percussion, though anyone expecting exactly that from Peter Negroponte, best known as the beastly drummer of Guerilla Toss, can’t be blamed. Instead, Join the Fucking Drum Circle is a psychedelic squawk from the inner depths of his strange and beautiful mind.
Clearance have been releasing the kind of breezy, effortless rock that serves as the perfect backdrop to the end of summer haze for over four years now, and with the release of their 7” single Are You Aware last August, the band proved that they have grown even more adept at stringing together infectious guitar hooks and vocal melodies.
The name change isn’t merely a product of Dwyer’s indecisiveness or dissatisfaction with the “Thee,” but rather reflects the concrete change that’s taken place over the course of a few years’ experimental transition. As evinced by its terse title, Orc aims to cut the fat off last years’ trial runs and introduce the new Oh Sees thesis.
