Damaged Bug

When he isn't frying amps and bending minds with the psychedelic garage prog sounds of his band Oh Sees, John Dwyer makes oddball pop built around vintage synths and wonky electronics with his Damaged Bug project. The first album, 2014's Hubba Bubba, was a homecooked, insular slice of keyboards and weirdness, and each record that followed edged closer to full-band, blown-out rock territory, with 2020's tribute to Michael Yonkers, Bug on Yonkers, sounding very much like an Oh Sees album. Dwyer started making music under the name Damaged Bug in 2014, roughly a month after Thee...