"It's a huge record, swinging from Oh Sees' usual well-oiled garage-psych and numbing krautrock to Space Age electronica and Zappa-esque solo noodling, often within a single song. Yet, as much as the brutal scale of Face Stabber makes it appear to be one of Oh Sees' most enticing (and thus potentially rewarding) projects, its scale feels blinkered and stuck within certain boundaries of ambition".