"With the Jacques/Nigel outselling power, it seems that the love has returned to the clever avant duo with the new record. Specialty fans will endeavour to hear the awesomeing return from the time off. A next record will be more."
-GQ (translation of French edition), May 1999

"More drivel from this duo unworthy of being called 'harde.' When will it all end?"
-Time Magazine, June 1999

"Nothing...less than excellent. Jacques and Nigel continue...to...surprise. 'Music For Your Plants'...easily gets...fo(u)r stars."
-Alternative Press, June 1999

"Jacques and Nigel...are...brilliant...and create an...elegant...musical...that is sure to...please...critics with its...technique."
-The Guardian, July 1999

"The power duo has done it again with its follow-up to the mega-hit nameless record. Nigel and Jacques' creative mastery of the avant-harde lineup has made them instant cult classics. A must-have for any serious artist."
-Jacques and Nigel Weekly, Sept. 1999 Volume 12, Issue 621

"The love-bonds and enigmatic avant-yarde-music-rockets exacerbate the group's flow from ecstacy giving plant life a flowing morass of instrumentalexperimentalization."
-La Bo'Te Monthly, Fall 1999

"A piece of...genius."
-SPIN, Feb. 1998

"The group continues...to...sell...records with their...music."
-YM, Nov. 1998

"Jacques and Nigel are untamable ranch hands soaring over a sonic landscape of musical genius and thunderous epiphany. A generally...record."
-Stuart Maconie, Q Magazine, Sept. 97

"An entangled novella of aural despair, 'naTiON sHOck' is merely a reflection of what Jacques & Nigel see fit to transpose onto our collective dependence."
-David Browne, Entertainment Weekly, Aug. 97

"Jacques and Nigel are willfully perverse, playfully adventurous, and sincerity-crippled. *** 1/2."
-Anthony DeCurtis, Rolling Stone, Oct. 97

"The WorldShock is a bilateral conceptualized, furthering by genuflection, yeah."
-Esquire (translated from French edition), June 1997