link on the Sonic Youth website that offered promo photographs, music videos and all three songs from the Kali Yug Express EP. The gatefold vinyl edition was released on the Smells Like Records Goofin imprint. Upon release, Murray Street was a moderate success, peaking at number 126 on the Billboard 200. Critical reception Murray Street received a score of 82 out of 100 from Metacritic based on "universal acclaim". Entertainment Weekly wrote that, with the album, "Sonic Youth find a balance – between formlessness and structure, melody and cacophony – that's eluded them for a while". Playlouder gave the album 4.5 out of 5 stars and said, "There is just enough balance between the tune, and the unexpected jazz chords, ear-splitting squeals, and lovely harmonic noises to make it forever listenable". The A.V. Club gave it a favorable review and said the album "doesn't mark an epochal moment for Sonic Youth, but its familiar nods and new ingredients--from Steve Shelley's occasionally near-funky drumming to O'Rourke's tingly laptop textures--stake out another high point for a band achieving self-realization by reconciling self-absorption with a sigh and a smile". Neumu.net gave it a score of 8 of 10 stars and stated: "Written with some basic, inviting rock structures, the album replaces the hyper energy and angst of older material with slowed-down, complex textures and delicate grooves -- but still rocks out intermittently". Nude as the News gave it a score of 8 out of 10 and said, "Whether they came on board at Daydream Nation or Experimental Jet Set, true believers will relish this one". Uncut gave it 4 of 5 stars, and said that the album "contains some of the best music Sonic Youth have recorded since the landmark Daydream Nation in 1988". Blender also gave it 4 of 5 stars and said of Sonic Youth, "They've got more sweet-and-bitter guitar muscle than ever". Q likewise gave the album 4 stars and called it "an essay in coolly assured, sophisticated leftfield rock, occasionally laden with trademark discordance yet also full of scintillating tunes". Billboard gave it a favorable review and said the album "features some of the group's most focused and seductive work ever". Mojo also gave the album 4 stars while labeling it as the "Album of the Month", and said, "The band's conventional elements are even more conventional while the boundary-pushers stretch as far as ever". Spin likewise gave the