Reviews
Ranked #1 in Mojo's "The Best of 2003in, "...A remarkably good record, quite possibly a great record....This is not garage rock; this is art rock: And that's a compliment..." - Grade: A, Ranked #1 in Q's "The 50 Best Albums of 2003" - "A record that made white-boy blues sound like pop music for the first time in over 30 years...", Ranked #8 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "Emotionally, the needle rarely drops beneath total overload.", 5 stars out of 5 - "...ELEPHANT features a group at their peak, rejoicing in basic forms while bursting beyond their limitations....They are quite simply in a league of their own...", Ranked #1 in Entertainment Weekly's 2003 "Records of the Year", 4 stars out of 5 - "...Where ELEPHANT differs from what has gone before is in terms of quality. It's just better all round: consistently better songs, more explosive performances - and, when required, more tender performances...", Ranked #23 in Uncut's "Albums of the Year 2003in, Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Best Albums of 2003in, "...Jack is a top-notch frontman, a charismatic yowler with a seemingly endless supply of brilliantly simplistic guitar riffs that often find fresh musical twists on tired rock & roll cliches..." - Rating: B, 5 stars out of 5 - "...There are still only two of them, but now they sound like an army....Equal measure of Lightnin' Hopkins' crude strum, Marc Bolan's sequined boogie and the cut-'n'-thrust song hooks of the Buzzcocks...", "...It Sounds Warm and Well-Aged....At the Core Is Jack's Increasingly Stunning Songwriting...", "...With Meg's perfectly imperfect drumming and Jack's Detroit wail excavating Jon Spencer or Plant or Willie Dixon, the divinely sloppy and unadorned ELEPHANT is RAW POWER with a GED...", Ranked #1 in Cmj's "Top 10 of 2003in