Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Robert Christgau | A |
| Pitchfork | (9.7/10) |
| Spin | (9/10) |
I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One is among the most critically acclaimed albums by Yo La Tengo, placing 5th in the Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 1997. The album has continued to earn acclaim since its release, ranking at #25 on the list of the Top 100 albums of the 1990s by Pitchfork, and #78 on Spin's greatest 90 albums of the 1990s. In February 2012, Paste Magazine named I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One the 22nd greatest album of the 1990s. Robert Christgau, in his review for Spin, called the first nine songs "perfect" and called out the song "Autumn Sweater" as the "very peak" of the album. The track "Stockholm Syndrome", sung by bassist James McNew, has been described as a "simulated Neil Young ballad." Christgau referred to the album as one of his "favorite albums of the year, easy," alongside those by Pavement, Sleater-Kinney, and Arto Lindsay, and his review of the band's 2003 album Summer Sun praised I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One as Yo La Tengo's "career album."
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