Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "I See Seaweed" in English language version.
One notable review that the album received from a non-Australian - US-based YouTube critic Anthony Fantano (2013) - was complimentary without being effusive
I became familiar with Gareth Liddiard and The Drones after a friend handed me his solo record Grand Tourist [sic]. I'd never heard anything quite like it, especially with it being just one man and his guitar by a crackling fire. When I first heard this song on the radio, albeit a radio edit, I was gob-smacked – chills all over my body. Eerily haunting verses that crash head-on into an earth shattering, apocalyptic cacophony as Gareth bellows, "Well ain't that just the way things are?" You get the full course a whole three times before it trails out with Liddiard's iconic screeching guitar tone. As much as a rockstar as he is a poet, Liddiard's vocals are jarring and definitely not pretty, but that's exactly why I love it.
There's the rawness too of the early PJ Harvey records [...]
On the Drones' latest release, the band is working with some of their longest and most emotive songs yet.
