Reception
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In 2000, Q placed Bryter Layter at number 23 in its list of the 100 Greatest British Albums Ever. Q (January 2001, p. 95) - Included in Q's "5 Best Re-Issues of 2000".
In 2003, the album was ranked number 242 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
NME (18 September 1993, p. 19) - Ranked #14 in NME's list of The Greatest Albums of the '70s. In 2000, NME included "One of These Things First" on a CD titled NME Presents Under the Influence, which included songs by some of most influential musicians and bands in music history.
Entertainment Weekly (12 May 2000, p. 24) - "The exquisiteness of the first album is expanded upon in 'Hazey Jane I', 'Fly' and a genuinely optimistic love song, 'Northern Sky'." - Rating: B+
Mojo (July 2000, p. 99) - "Certainly the most polished of his catalogue.... begins to suggest a whole other tableau of unexplored possibilities....God, how damn confident it all sounds. He knew how good he was."
Alternative Press (March 2001, p. 88) - "With a voice paradoxically feather-light and grave, of the most beautiful and melancholy albums ever recorded."
Q (May 2007, p. 135) - "Drake and producer Joe Boyd ratcheted up the production from the singer's debut album for this slick pop-folk set inspired by stoned late-night rambles around London. Hazey Jane II and At the Chime of a City Clock offered more hooks than a pirate convention, but mainstream success proved tellingly elusive."
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