Critic's Review
Nitsuh Abebe, All Music Guide
There are only two real problems with the Pilot Knob EP: most striking is its unreliable vocal performance, and less problematic is the fact that it would have sounded far more interesting had it been released around 1992. The record's sound has the driving rock tendencies of Superchunk or the Chapel Hill indie scene, but with a hazy stew of effects overlying it that makes things sound like a more pop-oriented, American take on Ride's early recordings (Smile in particular).
