Critical Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| About.com | |
| Sputnikmusic | |
| Treble | (Highly Positive) |
| Pitchfork Media | (10.0/10) |
| NME | (5/10) |
| AbsolutePunk | (93%) |
| Cokemachineglow.com | (99%) |
Reviews of the album were generally good; many tended to emphasize the fact that it spanned several genres, with some noting a stylistic kinship with Miles Davis's In a Silent Way album.
Pitchfork Media listed Laughing Stock as 11th best album of the 1990s, describing the album as "a record that makes its own environment and becomes more than the sum of its sounds."
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