“I've rhetorically asked this question before when reviewing Bassett's previous work, and I'll ask it again now: Considering the material on the four albums from KingBathmat (two of them released when that band was just a one-man project) and the way Bassett mind-melds heavy stoner rock with airy prog on Gravity Field, why isn't this dude famous? Oh, great song titles, too. "Dead Cat Bounce," anyone?”

"a fantastic, listen-to-it-over-and-over record from a powered-up indie-rock trio"..."the album's lush arrangements and its diversity of material, Fantastic Freak Show Carnival at times recalls a simpler version of Brian Wilson's decades-delayed, recently released SMiLE" 4.5/5

"KingBathmat, continues his idiosyncratic musical odyssey with probably his most aggressive, and certainly his best, album to date...Great Stuff indeed!"

"What is so blindingly obvious throughout the album is that here is something that is going to appeal to those who revel in the fact that their musical tastes are out of the ordinary as well as appealing to the mainstream. The only thing holding these guys back is publicity and it isn't the strength of material as this is an album that i fell in love with the very first time I played it and each time I hear it I get something else from it.

"An impressively diverse and fascinating piece of work".." If you like the sound of Pink Floyd wrestling with Kasabian, then King Bathmat will rock your world, a mindblower"

"music from another world"...."The suggestion that Bassett lives an insular life, free from knowledge of modern musical goings-on, couldn't be more ill-informed. On the contrary, Fantastic Freak Show Carnival suggests that he spent 20 years absorbing everything there is to hear in pop music, then developed his ability to effortlessly reproduce it all at once, without ever sounding derivative. Talk about a niche of your own..."

"Fantastic Freak Show Carnival's psych-arena rock -- big, blunt Bends-ian chords cuddled by extravagant ELO harmonies"...."a flair for wicked hooks, which rear their infectious heads"..."fantastic stuff"

"In “Fantastic Freak Show Carnival”, King Bathmat has created an (almost) perfect form of escapism. It’s a chance to journey into another universe, one that has a distinctly more psychedelic-tinge, and most importantly is brilliant fun. In fact, it’s all the fun of the fair." - soundsxp

"it is nothing short of fantastic, easily one of the best rock albums I have heard this year"...."the closer - Soul Searching Song - which runs over 11 minutes, takes the entire album, ties it all together conceptually and musically, and then closes the curtain on one dynamite album that is hard to forget." 9.5/10 -