Something Else by the Kinks

Talmy left in April 1967 and Ray produced the album, though the US edition credits Talmy and the UK edition credits no one. Hinman describes a mix of Davies-produced and Talmy-produced recordings. Ray later said he should not have been allowed to produce it. The band had cut back on touring and stockpiled songs for the village green project, and the title track of that project, "Village Green", was cut in November 1966 but first appeared on a French EP in 1967. The American release came in January 1968, during the US ban.

It reached number 35 in Britain and 153 on Billboard, then the lowest chart placing a Kinks album had earned in either country. Critics were kinder. Rolling Stone's James Pomeroy wrote in March 1968 that it was their best album yet, praising its humor, cynicism, perception and irony. AllMusic gave it five stars, Pitchfork 9.3, and Rolling Stone ranked it at number 288 in 2003 and 478 in 2020.

In a Sunday Review for Pitchfork in 2018, Lucy Sante called it an album colored by music hall and, more deeply, about loss. She noted that the word nostalgia turned up in almost every review at the time.