Reviews
"...The What-The-Hell Approach to Recording Has Served Red House Painters Well...", 3 Stars - Good - "...the album metamorphoses into a thoughtful, but far more dynamic group affair. Sure, there's the heartbreak, the flat world theories, but there's also strident Neil Youngian guitar....a highly entertaining, well off the wall album.", "...Post-folkie acoustic guitar mixes with Crazy Horse-like electric gnarl, and dreamy pedal steel enhances the languor. Kozelek makes music of hope and gloom, sad-eyed but vivid: His song-poetry seems to be of this world and also unplugged from it." - Rating: A-, 3-1/2 Stars - Good/Excellent - "...Mark Kozelek embellishes his typical graveyard folk with a Buddy Holly-ish rocker...a female-harmony vocal...and storms of Neil Young-style guitar distortion. The effect is freshening, at once looser, more varied and more textured than the band has often sounded in the past..."
