Reviews"...Imaginatively paced pop drones....shifting painlessly from heavy lidded, cocktail lounge leanings...to cheeky Sonic Youth THOUSAND LEAVES-era guitar grind....cute, clever and accomplished...", 8 out of 10 - "...Brooding and staid....their classic elements appear in fine form....slow dances evoking the deep calm of disappointment made familiar, even comfortable, by redemption - a pattern that over time has its own beauty...", Included in Cmj's "Best of the Year" for 2000., 4 stars out of 5 - "...continues to play slow and loose with that same ascetic blueprint....a thoroughly life-affirming reverie.", "...A beautiful, fragile, record that demands your full attention....There's something utterly unpretentious about this album, maybe due to its themes: love, marriage, the course of a relationship - their relationship...", Included in Cmj's List of "Top 25 College Radio Albums of All Time", Included in Magnet's "20 Best Albums of 2000" - "...A jazz-like, hypnotic quietude, yeilding an introspective...tension that squalls beneath the surface...", 4 out of 5 - "...Yo La Tengo aqre playing together wonderfully well here....the hushed, often beautifully harmonized vocals...are the most pleasant surprise here....their most mature fully realized work to date...", 4 stars out of 5 - "...They have further refined their baby's-bottom-smooth sound and come up with a gem...", 4 Stars Out of 5-"...A Gentle, Reflective Album about Love from Three Maturing Noiseniks...", 9 out of 10 - "...a twilight minimalism of post-folk strums and distant hums, all the better to tighten the focus on Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley's confessionals....A clearly adult, unfashionably sensitive document....It works...Like a dream.", 4 stars out of 5 - "...a quiet, delicate meditation on their bond as one of the most creatively fierce married band mates in music history...singing their most confessional, intimate lyrics ever...It's a spell of blissful, psychedelic make-out music...", "...drawing inspiration from its members' personal lives....the trio has truly turned its muse inside out here, creating a work of magnitude and heart...", Included in Rolling Stone's "Top 50 Albums of 2000"., Ranked #14 in Nme's "Top 50 Albums of the Year"., "Listening to this gentle musical love story is like eavesdropping on a whispered late-night conversation between Ira Kaplan and Georgia Hubley....their prettiest album, and it's guaranteed to make you jealous." - Rating: A
Additional InformationHoboken Trio's Tenth Record Is a Smoky, Sonic Novella to Love in the Form of a Lonesome Pop Record.