C (Star Chart)

This is where Osees lean fully into their kosmische and krautrock influences, and the result feels genuinely transportive in a way that their more aggressive material doesn't aim for. The track opens into space — literally, sonically — with synthesizer textures spreading wide before the rhythm section enters with that characteristically locked, motorik pulse. The "star chart" of the title isn't just metaphorical decoration; the music genuinely has the quality of plotting coordinates in an unfamiliar system, each element placed with a cartographer's precision. Guitars operate more as tonal color than melodic lead, sustaining long notes that blur into the synth field. Dwyer's vocal presence is reduced here, more a recurring signal than the dominant force, which shifts the center of gravity toward the instrumental conversation. This is Osees thinking about time and scale in a different register — not the immediate, percussive time of their live show but something longer, geological or astronomical. It rewards headphone listening in the dark, the kind of late-night attention that makes you feel briefly connected to something larger than your immediate circumstances.