 Complete the following phrase:  Calling the album a marked improvement over the diffuse, rambling songwriting of No Doubts two previous CDs, Mike Boehm of the Los Angeles Times felt that on the album, The band is bright, hard-hitting and kinetic, as sharp production captures the core, four-man instrumental team and adjunct horn section at their best. In a favorable review for The Village Voice, critic Chuck Eddy felt that although the album turns pretentious ... No Doubt resurrects the exuberance new-wave guys lost when 80s indie labels and college radio conned them into settling for slam-pit fits and wallflower wallpaper. AllMusic called it pure fun and described the music as something between 90s punk, third-wave ska, and pop sensibility and a mix of new wave melodicism, post-grunge rock, and West Coast sunshine, indicating the songs Spiderwebs, Just a Girl, and Dont Speak as positively ruling the airwaves. Yahoo! Music reviewer Bill Holdship called the album a phenomenon containing hit after hit, and describing Spiderwebs as a terrific opener. Reviewer Robert Christgau called Stefani hebephrenic and the album hyped up and not as songful as its fun-besotted partisans claim. At the 