Spin - "...Matt Pryor goes for broke with an excellently Beatlesesque album..." - Grade: A-
Alternative Press - 4 out of 5 - "...These songs sometimes drift toward stark territory, but the landscape of smartly melodic pop remains reassuringly familiar..."
CMJ - "...Pryor expresses his bittersweer candor through overlapping vocals, melifluous piano cadences and a punchy bassline...[and] guides us on a trip through the wasteland of American nostalgia."
Rovi
The third album by Matthew Pryor's Get Up Kids' side project, the New Amsterdams, splits the difference between the full-band Never You Mind, and the entirely solo Para Toda Vida, returning the rhythm section of the former, while keeping the largely acoustic focus of the latter. With its touches of banjo, flashes of wry humor, and more sprightly tempos -- all attributes heard to good effect on the sardonic road diary "Asleep at the Wheel" -- Worse for the Wear is the most relaxed-sounding and brightest New Amsterdams record yet, and with songs as catchy as "The Spoils of the Spoiled," and the oddly '70s rock piano-based tune, "From California," the New Amsterdams are in danger of taking over from the Get Up Kids as Pryor's most interesting and memorable band. ~ Stewart Mason|
Rovi
ゲット・アップ・キッズのヴォーカリスト、マット・プリオールによるアコースティック・ソロ・プロジェクトの3作目。メロトロンやラップ・スティール・ギターなども採り入れた味わい深いアルバム。エモ・キッズだけでなく大人の鑑賞にも耐える作品であるのですが、やはりどうしたってエモ臭さの抜けない(失礼!)彼の歌声。いやいやそんなところがまた、たまらない魅力なわけでして。いいじゃないですか!? エモくったって!!
bounce (C)粟野 竜二
タワーレコード(2003年07月号掲載 (P93))