Osees is the current name of John Dwyer's prolific garage-psych project, previously known as OCS, Thee Oh Sees, and Oh Sees across its history. The post-2020 run alone — Protean Threat, A Foul Form, Intercepted Message — moves at a pace nobody else matches. Shop Osees vinyl, CDs, and reissues at Wax Trax Records.
Osees (stylized OSEES) is the current incarnation of the prolific recording project of American musician John Dwyer (Dwyer), based in San Francisco / Los Angeles. The project has changed names multiple times across its multi-decade history - OCS (1997-2005), The Ohsees (2006-2008), Thee Oh Sees (2008-2013), Oh Sees (2017-2018), and Osees (2018-2020 with the more compact spelling, then 2020+ as Osees). The Osees-era catalog represents some of the project's most prolific output, with releases in 2020, 2022, 2023, and 2025.
Osees' sound combines garage rock, psychedelic rock, krautrock, garage punk, neo-psychedelia, art punk, and noise rock with Dwyer's distinctive vocal delivery, virtuosic frenetic instrumental arrangements, and prolific recording approach.
Castle Face Records and In the Red Records pressings of the Osees catalog have been issued in extensive color variant editions and limited deluxe pressings, with collector demand. The project's prolific output across multiple name eras has created collector challenges.
Listeners new to Osees typically start with Protean Threat (2020) or Intercepted Message (2023). See also: for the Oh Sees-era collection.
