"Pavement is in transition here - CRCR is a California album recorded on 32nd Street and Ninth Avenue in Manhattan...It’s the sound of a great band gaining ambition, confidence, ability.” - Joe Levy, Village Voice
 

“An album electric with carefree swagger and ageless amplification” - Billboard
 

“A masterpiece, a record that continues to glimmer with unique brilliance two decades after its release” - Stereogum