Ranked #27 in Nme's 1997 Critics' Poll., "...the songs...make you've sense you've been here before. But there's also the feeling that you stumbled through the singed brush of a UFO landing site in some beautiful and mesmerizing alien fertility ritual. And you just can't stop watching...", 8 (out of 10) - "...Grandaddy have the rare knack of juggling the fairly familiar into attractive new formations. The most apposite contemporary reference point is probably Sparklehorse....UNDER THE WESTERN FREEWAY is a strangely excellent album...", "The album has winning fuzz to spare on the driving 'Summer Here Kids' and boasts one of the earliest known utterances of the phrase 'Sorry, not sorry' -- the last line on the album."