Smote Reverser

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.

Personnel
Credits adapted from AllMusic.

Oh Sees
 * John Dwyer – effects, guitar, hand percussion, Mellotron, synthesizer, vocals, Wurlitzer electric piano
 * Tim Hellman – bass
 * Dan Rincon – drums
 * Paul Quattrone – drums, timbales

Additional musicians
 * Brigid Dawson – backing vocals
 * Tomas Dolas – B3 organ, Mellotron, Wurlitzer electric piano
 * Heather Locke – sampled viola on "The Last Peace"

Technical personnel
 * Matt Stawicki – cover artwork
 * Eric Bauer – engineering, mixing, production
 * Enrique Tena – engineering, mixing, production
 * JJ Golden – mastering
 * Matthew Jones – layout
 * Brian Lee Hughes – additional photography