Brian Smith of the DETROIT METRO TIMES
has named Eleni Mandell's Afternoon his number one album of the 2004:

"1. Eleni Mandell —Afternoon (Zedtone): Languid like a springtime afternoon alcohol buzz in Rickie Lee Jones’ garden; able to release the butterflies in your gut."

And HARP magazine placed Afternoon in its Top Forty CDs of the year at number 26:

"Mandell's sultry, noirish pulpy love tunes are the dreams that occur as you straddle the line between asleep and awake: so good, so perfectly and strangely composed that you long for them to be real. These make "Afternoon' a surreal, sublime delight."