The Fugs were, in the view of the longtime Village Voice critic Robert Christgau, "the Lower East Side's first true underground band".
Village Voice critic Robert Christgau called Lindsay the "king of skronk guitar".
The Associated Press theater critic said he would wait until invited to review; The Village Voice critic said he was inclined to wait; and The New York Post's critic said she would be conferring with her editors.
Deborah Jowitt, the dance historian, teacher and longtime Village Voice critic who has reviewed so many Fresh Tracks evenings, performed in the very first program.
Cowell pointed every which way, and as such was the founder of the so-called "downtown" school of American avant-gardism, the kind championed by the composer and Village Voice critic Kyle Gann, who contributes a preface here.
"His work has a certain sensibility that speaks to me about something in the '80s and '90s and beyond that's important," said Deborah Jowitt, the historian and Village Voice critic, noting that when he began choreographing, those "were very difficult, troubled times, difficult for artists".
In a favourable review for The Village Voice, critic Chuck Eddy felt that although "[the album] turns pretentious.
In his consumer guide for The Village Voice, critic Robert Christgau gave the album a "dud" rating, indicating "a bad record whose details rarely merit further thought".
Village Voice critic J. Hoberman praised it as "the beatnik film par excellence," with Mead playing "a kind of Zen village idiot".
Village Voice critic Robert Christgau has described "Instant Karma!" as Lennon's "best political song", while other reviewers consider it his finest post-Beatles recording.
