Pig Lib

Disc 1
1	Water and a Seat 4:18
2	Ramp of Death 2:37
3	(Do Not Feed The) Oyster 4:49
4	Vanessa from Queens 3:21
5	Sheets 3:19
6	Animal Midnight 5:11
7	Dark Wave 2:26
8	Witch Mountain Bridge 5:21
9	Craw Song 2:41
10	1% of One 9:11
11	Us 4:16
Disc 2
1	Dynamic Calories previously unreleased 2:23
2	Fractions and Feelings previously unreleased 3:28
3	Old Jerry previously unreleased 6:18
4	The Poet and The Witch Live / previously unreleased 2:05
5	Shake It Around Live / previously unreleased 4:04

Barnes & Noble

For a guy who's generally presented himself as a master of detachment, Stephen Malkmus has been surprisingly willing to give listeners a peek behind his emotional curtain since extricating himself from the environs of Pavement. His self-titled solo bow stabbed tentatively at openness, but on this follow-up, he strips away even more -- particularly in the melodic realm, where he casts his line into the sort of unrippled waters favored by such unlikely precursors as folk-rockers Fairport Convention and It's a Beautiful Day. No, Malkmus hasn't turned completely hippie -- although "Witch Mountain Bridge" and "Do Not Feed the Oyster" certainly radiate a fair amount of Day-Glo -- but he's developed much more of a fondness for the more bucolic side of life. That's abundantly evident in the wistful lament "Vanessa from Queens," the latest in the singer's litany of thinly veiled sonic biographies, and "Craw Song," which would fit in nicely on a Kinks/Village Green outtakes collection. A limited edition five-song live disc accompanies the initial pressing. David Sprague

Rolling Stone

An elegantly meandering head trip underpinned by the kind of tuneful, world-wise romanticism that's won him the hearts of English majors everywhere. Christian Hoard

Spin Magazine

A grown-up slacker travelogue that's long-strange-trip zonked-out like Thomas Pynchon's Vineland and warm-and-fuzzy folksy like Fairport Convention's What We Did on Our Holidays. (A) Jon Dolan

Entertainment Weekly

Pig Lib accomplishes what no punk-schooled fan would think possible: It makes prog-rock cool.... I bet Phish's Trey Anastasio feels a twinge of envy when he puts this on. (A-) Will Hermes