Wilco Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

4 out of 5 stars - "...An earthy, moving psychedelia, eleven iridescent-country songs about surviving a blown mind and a broken heart....the enchanting sound of things falling apart-and gingerly, doggedly coming together again..."
Ranked #2 on Spin's list of 2002's "Albums of the Year"
"...The record includes fragments of treated piano, static interference, [and] random noises....YANKEE isn't your typical Americana or alt-country record..."
"The work of a band breaking free from gravity with the confidence that strains of roots, prog, pop, and noise can peacefully coexist."
4 out of 5 stars - "...This elegant, world-weary...album ploughs enthusiastically into the leftfield..."
Ranked #4 in Uncut's "100 Best Albums of the Year" - "...Wilco's finest, its pretty electronic textures and melodicism making a heartbreaking album..."
Ranked #5 on CMJ's "Top 10 of 2002"
"...[A] beautifully strange mix of organic textures and oblique poetics, all of it gently pulsating with a backwoodsy tech-head feel..."
Ranked #26 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "Jeff Tweedy suffers personal crisis and pines for innocence lost before eventually arriving at a redemption of sorts."
Ranked #4 in Mojo's "Best Albums of 2002"
"...Truly, a remarkable record..."
8 out of 10 - "...it's a gripping darkness that doesn't often lift. It's hard going but worth it, and that is undoubtedly their point."
Paste (magazine) - "It's Tweedy's growth as a lyricist that's most arreting....Tweedy alternates subtle and startling twists of phrase to paint pictures of intense longing, wistful nostalgia, moments of pure joy and utter despair."