The Great Annihilator is the ninth studio album by American experimental rock band Swans.

[3] The album features a shift towards more prominent melodies and cleaner production than Swans' earlier work.

[6] Louder Sound's Dom Lawson describes the song "Celebrity Lifestyle" as a "weirdly catchy no-wave hoedown".

[8] Dom Lawson described the song as "an object lesson in sonic unease", and, alongside "Celebrity Lifestyle", one of the band's "most devastating moments".

"[6] Trouser Press, on the other hand, wrote that the album "reveals [...] that the band is running out of ideas", commenting that is "unlikely to satisfy long-term followers.