Damaged Bug started off as a place for John Dwyer to experiment with synths and songs didn’t quite fit in with what the Osees were doing at the time. Over the years, the project inched closer to the Osees, by the time of 2026’s ZUZAX it was hard to tell the two groups apart. The only real difference is the use of synths as the main driver of sound instead of guitars, but really songs like “Double Yolks” or wouldn’t sound out of place on an Osees album. Some of the more outré tracks like “Mozzy Rooves & More” do travel some distance from the norm, but as long as Dwyer is behind the mic and is going bonkers in that fascinating way he has, this will all be instantly recognizable to fans of his work. That’s a wordy way of saying this is prime Dwyer made up of songs that were never…
