It was voted the 15th best album of the year in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics published by The Village Voice. Robert Christgau, the poll's creator, ranked it seventh on his own year-end list.
In the annual Pazz & Jop ranking of albums, this one was selected as the 15th best of the year. Robert Christgau, who formulated the poll, placed it at number seven on his personal end-of-year list.