Face Stabber
by Thee Oh Sees

Face Stabber by Thee Oh Sees
Year: 2019
Release date: 2019-08-16
Overall rank: 7,905th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 44 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 2019 (126th)
Award Top albums of of the 2010s (1,527th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,905th)

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Thee Oh Sees bestography

Face Stabber is ranked 7th best out of 34 albums by Oh Sees on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Oh Sees is Floating Coffin which is ranked number 4195 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 347.

Thee Oh Sees album bestography « Higher ranked (7,017th)
Smote Reverser
This album (7,905th)
Face Stabber
Lower ranked (11,114th) »
Protean Threat

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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Overall rank: 7,905th | 2010s rank: 1,527th | 2019 rank: 126th

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 44 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 10% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.8/100, a mean average of 74.1/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.3/100. The standard deviation for this album is 12.1.

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80/100
This album sees John Dwyer's garage/psych rock outfit delve into slinkier grooves and lengthier jams than any previous outings. With two tracks clocking in over 14 minutes and others ripping past in just under 2, the sound and pacing here is gleefully splintered and awkward, just like the cult krautrock and fuzzy psych of the late 60s early 70s this era of Oh Sees is indebted to. Often compelling and sometimes sketchy and self-indulgent, this is the sound of an incredibly tight and experienced band continuing it's perpetual, rabid figit away from any pigeon-hole or comfort zone.
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80/100
psychrock, jazzrock,punkrock, progrock all mixed up in a supersonic blender and what emerges is a masterpiece of jamming which, despite the length of some individual tracks and the length of the whole album remains groovy the whole time and never bores.
If you thought they couldn't take it any further than on Smote Reverser the listen to this one.
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