Rolling Stone (3/15/01, p.81) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...These tracks ground themselves in White's flawless songcraft - melodies, hooks and choruses that are instantly memorable...freshened up by hip-hop beats and swirling atmospherics....transports the listener to the imagination's outskirts..."
Entertainment Weekly (3/9/01, p.83) - "...Gothic folktales inspired by fire-and-brimstone religion, freedom-promising highways, and broken-down cars..." - Rating: B
Q (3/01, p.113) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Beatmasters Morcheeba and Sade's Andrew Hale give White and his cast of oddballs and ne'er-do-wells a multi-layered contemporary sheen....A few more crunching melodies and he would be genuinely flying, but this will most certainly do."
Alternative Press (2/02, p.65) - Ranked #11 in AP's "25 Best Albums of 2001" - "...an American treasure..."
Magnet (4-5/01, p.91) - "...Long on urban beats and electronic effects...The settings and imagery...remain straight out of the Southern gothic tradition and in the very human scale of hand-to-mouth living..."
CMJ (2/12/01, p.24) - "...Rural rock from outer space..."
Mojo (Publisher) (2/01, p.94) - "...Caustic country and slinky white funk, with acoustic guitars, banjos, synths and samples, and a vocal warping from Will Oldham at his most affecting to Johnny Dowd at his most pathological..."
Personnel includes: Jim White (vocals, various instruments); Ross Godfrey (guitar, Wurlitzer piano, bass, background vocals); Ben Peeler (lap steel guitar, dobro, mandolin); Toshi Nakanishi (lap steel guitar, whistle, harmonica, percussion); Dal Thomas (banjo, background vocals); Jem Sullivan (mandolin); Andrew Hale (piano, Fender Rhodes piano, melodion, drums, percussion, programming, vinyl sratches).
Producers: Paul Godfrey, Ross Godfrey, Pete Norris, Jim White, Andrew Hale.
Engineers: Andrew Hale, Jim White, Q-Burns Abstract Message.
Personnel include: Jim White (vocals, guitar, banjo); Ross Godfrey (vocals, guitar); Andy Keep (bass instrument); Q Burns (programming).