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"Smote Reverser " is the twenty first studio album by American garage rock band OCS, released on August 17, 2018 on Castle Face Records It is the band's second studio album to be released under the name Oh Sees, after it was announced that they would be dropping Thee from their name.
At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from critics, the album received an average score of 75, based on 6 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".
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Smote Reverser is, quite deliberately, a record that sounds like an endless stream-of-consciousness, with no underlying nucleus that pulls it all together. Any of these tracks, each so distinct from the others, could potentially hold the charm of the record. Perhaps its off-kilter nature is an honest reflection of the chaotic, restless and lawless nature of our society today.
Smote Reverser has Oh Sees go full-out psych-rock, with inklings of post-apocalyptic soundscapes, both thematically and sonically. Where the punishing goth-doom of lead single “Overthrown” is caustic and feral, there are instances of fresh organs and keyboards to reinforce a more progressive rock feel. There are more pop and garage-rock elements strewn across the record, but they play second-fiddle to the more grandiose and amplified energy of the rest of the tracks. “Moon Bog” is a more dialled-down number, but still haunting nonetheless, and the restlessness of the tracks create for an unsettling energy.
So who really are Oh Sees? Are they themselves aware of who or what they are? They could be anything they want to be.
Reviewed by Cady Siregar for thelineofbestfit.com.
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