 Williams lauded the album's musical range but found it lacked an integral quality, which he acknowledged was outside the group's control.According to Turner, the album's combination of novel sounds and unusual subject matter "challenged all the conventions of pop" and it was the upcoming generation of writers who "got it immediately".Among these, Richard Goldstein of "The Village Voice" described "Revolver" as "a revolutionary record" that was "as important to the expansion of pop as was "Rubber Soul"".