At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, […] received an average score of 89 based on 20 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".The album was acclaimed upon its initial release in Europe in 2002, while in the United States, it was widely hyped well before its official February 2003 release date due to its circulation via import copies and file sharing. In The Village Voice's 2003 Pazz & Jop poll, […] was voted by critics as the year's 33rd best album.
Pitchfork ranked […] at number 131 on its list of the 200 best albums of the 2000s. […] has been cited by critics as a landmark album of indie electronic, or "indietronica", music; Tristan Gatward of Loud and Quiet remarked in 2019 that the sound of indie electronic music in the 2000s "was dictated" by the record. In 2014, PopMatters writer Jose Solis described it as a "truly groundbreaking" album that "set in motion an electronica-meets-indie rock revolution that [would] define the sound of a decade."
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