Their darkest, most impenetrable record yet--the aural approximation of staring down a mine shaft at midnight. [Jul 2002, p.75]

Manslaughter is a ferocious, heavy record that proves once again that Ice-T and company are undeniable metal contenders, far more than a pop-cultural footnote.

Just what the doctor ordered for those underwhelmed by last year's Built To Spill album. [Jul 2002, p.94]

You would need massive amounts of time on your hands in order to write, refine and record a debut album as thrilling as The Weird And Wonderful Marmozets.

A rapid barrage of sludge-rich bass, scalding guitar distortion and wrist-popping drums fill atop frontman Drew Thomson's infuriated black humor. [Nov 2014, p.98]

Though the length of the songs can prove to be daunting, the album is arguably one of Isis' finest moments. [Jun 2009, p.105]

By smoothing out the rough edges, the guys found new ways to bleed. [Jul 2013, p.104]

The Coral blow through genres like Top 40 radio does flavors of the week. [Apr 2003, p.74]

The music the two make has taken a huge creative leap forward. [Oct 2014, p.100]

With Burials, AFI are going larger than life to get back into the small of their fans’ hearts.

Transit Transit, the follow-up to 2004's similarly majestic Future Perfect, doesn't stray from the intended path, offering sonic action painting, narcotic dreamscapes and other manifestations of sonic bliss that you simply cannot divine from any band currently operating.

Dogs Eating Dogs is a strong effort.

Via Audio thrill at taking risks, succeeding throughout the album's 12 tracks. [Mar 2010, p.98]

Solidly entertaining. [Aug 2004, p.122]

Green's heightened tunefulness along with the broadened emotional resonance that results should enable this band to relate more to an enlarged fanbase... [#154, p.63]

These 11 songs are decidedly more polished. [Oct 2015, p.100]

Robert Pollard breaks with several of his own traditions--fewer songs (only 10), and of those, eight break the 2-and-a-half-minute barrier. [Aug 2008, p.163]

The duo's brand of hip-hop sounds like a mind-meeting between Black Panther leader Huey P. Newton and pimped-out Bay Area rapper Too Short. [Oct 2001, p.91]

Far from the emperor with no summertime clothes, the five songs on Fall Be Kind--a mixture of holdovers from the MPP sessions and new material recorded this year--retain the electronics, but add some samples and head in a darker thematic direction.

The despair in the vocals complements the weight of the music, with just enough melodic hookiness in places (especially “Outside Of Me,” “Sheltered” and “Knew”) to keep you engaged, balanced with some truly epic tangents (see closer “Around The Railing”).

Wisely, the quartet avoid the well-trodden road of "epic" guitar rock to deliver textures loaded with lyrical guitar phrasings within over-modulated grit and distortion.

Confield not only documents the future of IDM; it also cements Autechre's name in the pantheon of sonic visionaries. [Jul 2001, p.63]

A foot-stomping, bum-shaking good time from beginning to end. [May 2002, p.80]

Radio also is the most intensely personal Green Day album in years; as much a celebration of life on the upside of 40 as it is a reminder of the choices, conflicts and contradictions that mark a life well-lived.

Fans of TBR will undoubtedly love this record as much as the last. [Aug 2012, p.91]

Now more than ever, Hanna's voice and music resonate and inspire. [Oct 2013, p.88]

Plays like the soundtrack to a string of awe-striking discoveries. [Feb 2006, p.120]

Has a curiously timeless sense of eclecticism. [May 2006, p.166]