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Smote Reverser

album by Oh Sees

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ56208939 ↗
Source-derived summary

Smote Reverser is the twenty-first studio album by American garage rock band Oh Sees, released on August 17, 2018, on Castle Face Records. The album features keyboardist Tomas Dolas, who contributed to 2017's Memory of a Cut Off Head, and subsequently joined the band as a full time member.

Critical reception

Smote Reverser was met with "generally favorable" reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, this release received an average score of 79, based on 18 reviews. Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 75 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 18 reviews.

Track listing

Personnel

Credits adapted from AllMusic.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Smote Reverser” is album by Oh Sees. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Smote, Reverser and album, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2018, 2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Smote, Reverser and album is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “album by Oh Sees” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q56208939. The first chronological checks are 2018 and 2017.

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This entry incorporates text from “Smote Reverser” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.