Rolling Stone (p.68)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "They begin and end the album with high-energy psychedelic guitar trances that break the ten-minute barrier without dragging for a second."Rolling Stone (p.107)
- Ranked #36 in Rolling Stone's "The Top 50 Albums Of 2006" -- "[T]his is the most effortlessly spectacular music Yo La Tengo have made in years." Spin (p.105)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "Ira Kaplan's crew opts for diversity, flitting gracefully from ornery psychobilly to falsetto soul to twinkling folk rock." Entertainment Weekly (p.72)
- "[T]he palette's expanded; horn arrangements and lonely strings spike their familiar bass-drum-guitar-keyboard mix, and they even pull off some vintage R&B moves." -- Grade: A Uncut (p.134)
- 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here are passages of gorgeous dreampop, splintering rock and space-drone, culminating in the epic 'The Story Of Yo La Tengo'..." Alternative Press (p.190)
- "Two freakouts neatly bookend some of the most winsome songs ever recorded by the trio. Clearly, Yo La Tengo aren't aging gracefully -- just abnormally well." Magnet (p.110)
- "Jubilant brass-backed jams rub shoulders with various staples of the YLT stable: heartrending harmonizers, jazz/pop parfaits and droning, palindromic bookends that never want to end..." The Wire (p.64)
- "Yo La Tengo know how to craft the classic pop song, but they're also keyed in to the world of jazz and rock improvisation, utilising both armouries with equal efficacy." CMJ (p.43)
- "Drummer Georgia Hubley's twee musings subsequently make the perfect complement to her husband/frontman Ira Kaplan's brown-acid, WHITE ALBUM lullabies." | 
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