Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Aggregate scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Metacritic | 75/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Drowned in Sound | 10/10 |
| Entertainment Weekly | B− |
| Kerrang! | |
| NME | 7/10 |
| Pitchfork Media | 1.9/10 |
| PopMatters | favorable |
| Q | |
| Robert Christgau | C |
| Rolling Stone | |
| Sputnikmusic | 5.0/5 |
| Yahoo! Music UK | |
The album was a commercial success in the United States, reaching number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 albums chart in its debut week. Well received by both fans and most critics, it was named Kerrang!'s album of the year in 2001, and the band received the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for the song "Schism". During the band's acceptance speech, drummer Carey stated that he would like to thank his parents "for putting up with ", and bassist Justin Chancellor concluded, "I want to thank my dad for doing my (mum)."
NutSie.com ranks the drumming performance by Danny Carey on the song "Ticks & Leeches" number three on their list of Top 100 Rock Drum Performances.
Overall, Lateralus was critically well received and its complexity provoked many responses akin to what Ryan Rayhil of Spin magazine had to say about the album, calling it a "monolithic puzzlebox".
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“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
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