Critics considered the album innovative for its explosive, propulsive, and often staccato riff style which greatly exploited drop D tuning.

Church and State is considered a highly innovative underground album.

Stanton Swihart of Allmusic considered the effort "an exquisite, even innovative album.

They are renowned for having made the most innovative and fascinating album in many years ...

The result is not a great or innovative album but an honest testament to flawed eccentricity.

Eye Contact is an album that's impossible to pigeonhole and it may jut be the most innovative album of the year.

Interestingly, he appeared on a number of highly innovative albums.

The album, however, was heralded by the music press as one of the most innovative albums of the decade.

The duo gradually regained critical favour with a trio of innovative albums in the late 1970s and early 1980s ...

By the 1960s, innovative albums helped éntekhno become close to mainstream, and also led to its appropriation by the film industry for use in soundtracks.