"Surrender Your Poppy Field leans to the grand scale in its melodies and arrangements, but Pollard was clearly in a playful mood when the band cut this material, and after appearing on well over a hundred albums, he still sounds engaged and looking for new angles, even finding some here and there. While Surrender Your Poppy Field is less immediately approachable than the other albums from this period in the Guided by Voices saga, it's experimental, not meandering, and for fans with a taste for their more esoteric side, this will hit the spot and then some".