Smote Reverser

Pitchfork 7.6/10 On their new record, the California group remain deliriously unhinged but indulge in prog-metal fantasies.

A.V. Club B Nicki Minaj reaches for the throne room, Animal Collective unearths an interesting live artifact, Death Cab do more Death Cabbing, and more in this week of new releases.

NME 3/5 The cult heroes' 21st album shows they've still not run out of ideas but could do with some editing

The Line of Best Fit 8/10 John Dwyer and co return with yet another album of peerless psych, pushing the genre's boundaries in the process

Rolling Stone 3.5/5 The band's 21st album swerves its own weird way through Sixties and Seventies rock

The Skinny 4/5 Oh Sees' Smote Reverser is sprawling, magnificent, dangerous and fantastical; like so many great pieces of work it leaves you wanting more.

Clash 8/10 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,

Loud and Quiet 6/10 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'.

Spectrum Culture 70% 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.