 AllMusic editor Stephen Thomas Erlewine considers " Love You To " to be Harrison 's " first and best foray into Indian music " , while Bruce Eder , also writing for AllMusic , views it as " exquisite " . In his song review for the same website , Richie Unterberger is unimpressed with the track ; while acknowledging that " Love You To " was " Undoubtedly ... another indication of the group 's rapidly broadening barriers " , he cites a lead vocal that " drone [ s ] on in a rather lugubrious way " , Harrison 's slightly " disheveled " sitar playing , and lyrics that constitute " a rather muddled mix of free love advocacy , meditations on the transience of life on Earth , and chip @-@ on @-@ the @-@ shoulder wariness of people out to exploit him " . Although he finds the melody " sourly repetitious " , Ian MacDonald writes that the track is " distinguished by the authenticity of its Hindustani classical instrumentation and techniques " , and admires Harrison 's understanding of the genre . In a 2009 review for Paste magazine , Mark Kemp described Revolver as the album on which the Beatles " completed their transformation from the mop tops of three years earlier into bold , groundbreaking experimental rockers " , and added : " Harrison 's ' Love You To ' is pure Indian raga – sitar and tablas punctuated by the occasional luminous guitar riff jolting through the song 's paranoid , drug @-@ fueled lyrics like a blinding ray of sun into a dark forest . " 
