the bouncier tracks, like "radio cure", and "heavy metal drummer" break up the dense, sullen nature of this record

Critics jumped on this with good reviews due to it's "eccentric nature", short-wave radio theme, and the band's trouble getting this album released.

Tweedy is an accomplished songwriter with a distinctive voice, but he is not a visionary, and his material is nowhere near as strong as that belonging to songwriters such as Will Oldham, Mark Everett, or even to Radiohead, the band to which Wilco is so often compared

Put it all together seamlessly, as pure as