Smote Reverser

On their new record, the California group remain deliriously unhinged but indulge in prog-metal fantasies.

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John Dwyer and co return with yet another album of peerless psych, pushing the genre's boundaries in the process

The cult heroes' 21st album shows they've still not run out of ideas but could do with some editing

The band's 21st album swerves its own weird way through Sixties and Seventies rock

Oh Sees' Smote Reverser is sprawling, magnificent, dangerous and fantastical; like so many great pieces of work it leaves you wanting more.

Ultimately it doesn’t matter if you like the latest album by the Oh Sees, Orinoka Crash Suite, OCS, Orange County Sound, The Ohsees, The Oh Sees,

John Dwyer's Oh Sees are a well-oiled machine, but that machine looks a bit like a conveyor belt with album number twenty-one 'Smote Reverser'.

Oh Sees make metal more jazzy while taking its extended writing a little too far in our review of the induglent 'Smote Reverser'

It's too early to tell if Oh Sees are taking a new, more expansive path, or if this album simply marks their latest laboratory work.

Prog excellence that walks the line between mastery and excess. Review by Owen Richards