Sebadoh Bakesale (Color Vinyl)

4 stars out of 5 -- "Barlow's new approach made for one of the best indie-rock albums in a year full of stellar ones -- and Sebadoh's greatest work."
3 Stars - Good - "...Sebadoh are Lou Barlow's Velvet Underground, wrapping his confessions in fuzz, hiss and distortion and setting them alongside complementary songs by bandmates....Individual songs offer slightly different perspectives..."
"BAKESALE was the catchy, coherent 1994 breakthrough -- a missing link between Nick Drake and Sonic Youth."
Ranked #16 in Spin's list of the '20 Best Albums Of '94' - "...Sebadoh's cleanest, most pro recording to date..."
Highly Recommended - "...a consistent, even professional pop-rock record....Like the young Elvis Costello, he flirts with emotional fascism twisting love-song cliches into clever negations..."
4 Stars - Excellent - "...The tone is conversational, the choice of words precise, yet natural. Sebadoh may have arrived at a potentially very popular midpoint between R.E.M. and Nirvana..."
"...Sebadoh continue their streak of winners on BAKESALE, an album brimming with edgy, off-kilter pop....It's that self-aware wink that keeps so much self-doubt from becoming grating....There's really not a bad song on here..."
"...the overall effect is lightly, pleasantly numbing. Which is part of their appeal, one suspects..."
Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #20 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.
Included in Mojo's "25 Best Albums of 1994" - "...their most consistent long-player yet with brisk, riffing nuggets....Sebadoh are surely poised for greatness."
Ranked #27 in NME's list of the 'Top 50 Albums Of 1994.'
"...Set alongside Barlow's fearless lyrics, quality control is no longer an issue for this band..."
3 stars out of 5 -- "[E]asily their most accessible....There are certainly moments of aggressive clarity here..."