Reviews
Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums of the 1990s.", Included in Wire's "50 Records of the Year 1998in, Ranked #30 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "The results were rhapsodic: bowed saw symphonies and the ineffable 'Holes', a fantastical elegy to magic and loss.", "...their fourth effort feels like a watershed, the point where their heady mix of orchestral pop, roots rock, psychedlia, prog, choral, and chamber music finally crystallizes into something special and damn near ineffable..." - Rating: A-, Ranked #30 in Q's "Best 50 Albums of Q's Lifetime", 8 (out of 10) - "...It's an album of shameless good-byes: to Manhattan, to love, and (most painfully) to not giving a shit. Successfully repressing his Sonic Youth tics, Donahue starts with goofy, SMILE-era Beach Boys and heaps on even thicker strata of strings and brass than SEE YOU ON THE OTHER SIDE..."