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- Summary: This is the second full-length release for the Thee Oh Sees under its shortened name.
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- Record Label: Castle Face
- Genre(s): Pop/Rock
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Positive: 15 out of 18
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Mixed: 3 out of 18
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Negative: 0 out of 18
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Aug 17, 2018Smote Reverser is undeniably an Oh Sees record, with all 20 years of the band's history coming through every note played and sung, but it feels like a huge step into something new that's sure to be just as exciting and unpredictable.
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Aug 17, 2018Smote Reverser, the group’s 21st album, picks up the proggy, kraut-flavored vibes of 2017’s Orc and pushes even further into the cosmos. ... The longer Oh Sees go, the more wicked they get.
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Aug 10, 2018There’s enough going on in the grooves of Smote Reverser to satisfy your psych and/or prog urges for the foreseeable future, let alone in the few months it’ll take Dwyer to follow it up.
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UncutAug 10, 2018This is mature work. It's confident in what it is--and as seems likely, what it will turn into next. [Sep 2018, p.27]
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Classic Rock MagazineAug 24, 2018Dwyer has led us into yet another musical sphere, one that's proggier, perplexing and ripe for exploration. [Sep 2018, p.89]
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Aug 24, 2018Like last year’s Orc, their 21st album (and second with their current lineup) spills off into other parts of the Sixties and Seventies.
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Aug 14, 2018By the album’s end, they seem to be stuck in a cul-de-sac. The next album, one hopes, will come along soon and help them out.
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Positive: 5 out of 5
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Mixed: 0 out of 5
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Negative: 0 out of 5
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Aug 20, 2018
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Aug 25, 2018I agree with the previous reviews, this is fantastic. This is one of their best albums, I think.
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Aug 19, 2018
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Jan 4, 2019
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