John Dwyer needs to make music, otherwise you'd hate him.

"I would be an awful goblin of a man without art," he told LOOKatOKC via email.

Dwyer, who fronts Thee Oh Sees, makes music that feels at times like raw outbursts of fuzzy psychedelic aggression and at other times like the sleepy ballads of a swamp hermit.

Throughout the band's dozen or so albums, Dwyer manages to refine that aggression in a way that makes the chaos seem spontaneous, perhaps even unhinged. A fire bursting and spreading as it pleases. But once you reach the end of any given album and you look back at its whole, the methodical elements begin to rise from the ash.