Reception
Summerteeth peaked at number seventy-eight on the Billboard 200, failing to exceed the chart success of Being There. However, it was their first album to chart in the top forty in the United Kingdom. As of 2003, it had sold only 200,000 copies. The album placed eighth on the Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 1999, and Pitchfork gave it position thirty-one in its list of the best albums of the 1990s.
Jason Ankeny of Allmusic gave the album five stars, lauding its "lush string arrangements and gorgeous harmonies." Ankeny also compared the music on the album to The Band in their prime. Pitchfork Media writer Neil Lieberman praised how Wilco "craft an album as wonderfully ambiguous and beautifully uncertain as life itself," and how Bennett "paint the album in Technicolor." Robert Christgau gave the album a two star honorable mention, calling it "old-fashioned tunecraft lacking not pedal steel, who cares, but the concreteness modern popcraft eschews." Chicago Tribune critic Greg Kot championed the album on his review of the album and ranked it the year's best album, calling it "pop so gorgeous it belies the intricate studio experimentation that brought it to life."
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