Beatsongs

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[9]
Calgary Herald	B[11]
Chicago Tribune	[12]
Record Collector	[6]

The Boston Globe wrote: "Intense and dreamy, acoustic and electric, Beatsongs is yet another fine effort from a fringe 'alternative' band, one that deserves a major push and breakthrough"; the paper later listed Beatsongs as one of the best albums of 1991.^[13][14] The Chicago Tribune determined that "it's electric folk with a vaguely psychedelic underpinning—think of 'Eight Miles High'-era Byrds, early Fairport Convention or the Velvet Underground's third album."^[12]

The Calgary Herald deemed the album "a trip ripe with poetic lyrics that whisper and implore, with glistening pop-rock jewels, brooding tunes that untie the knot of anxiety, acoustic/electric guitars that soar eight miles high, the sound of the '60s, of now, of forever."^[11] The Times praised the "vivid melodic framework and ... wondrous tonal lustre" of the guitars.^[15] The Daily Breeze considered Beatsongs to be the seventh best rock album of 1991.^[16]