Yankee Hotel Foxtrot (Enhanced)

Ranked #5 on CMJ's "Top 10 of 2002 CMJ (12/30/02, p.10)

...[A] beautifully strange mix of organic textures and oblique poetics, all of it gently pulsating with a backwoodsy tech-head feel... CMJ (4/22/02, p.4)

Ranked #4 in Mojo's "Best Albums of 2002 Mojo (1/03, p.73)

...Truly, a remarkable record... Mojo (5/02, p.99)

8 out of 10 - "...it's a gripping darkness that doesn't often lift. It's hard going but worth it, and that is undoubtedly their point. NME (4/20/02, p.22)

4 out of 5 stars - "...This elegant, world-weary...album ploughs enthusiastically into the leftfield... Q (May 2002, p.121)

4 out of 5 stars - "...An earthy, moving psychedelia, eleven iridescent-country songs about surviving a blown mind and a broken heart....the enchanting sound of things falling apart-and gingerly, doggedly coming together again... Rolling Stone (5/9/02, pp.71-72)

Ranked #2 on Spin's list of 2002's "Albums of the Year Spin (1/03, p.70)

...The record includes fragments of treated piano, static interference, [and] random noises....YANKEE isn't your typical Americana or alt-country record... Spin (3/02, p.131)

Ranked #4 in Uncut's "100 Best Albums of the Year" - "...Wilco's finest, its pretty electronic textures and melodicism making a heartbreaking album... Uncut (1/03, p.94)