These six songs are louder, faster and heavier than the first EP. [Jun 2014, p.105]

On their eighth album, the breadth of Godflesh’s influences are wider than ever, and their capacity for psychological excavation runs deeper.

A precious orch-pop labyrinth that unfolds with sudden melodic left turns and zany shifts in dynamics and instrumentation. [Aug 2001, p.94]

Bow Down... was developed alongside a movie script and works as vivid NYC filmic music and an electic-by-default modern concept album. [12/2000, p.96]

While Fantasy Empire does sound more crisp [recording in a proper studio] as a result, their music hasn't lost its raw energy. [Apr 2015, p.93]

One of the few albums that deserves its Pitchfork-generated hype. [Jul 2006, p.204]

TSSF have created an album that will help young listeners navigate the murky waters of growing up. As for the older listeners? Just appreciate the fact that a band this young are able to write an album this thoughtful and passionate.

Kozelek's unique arrangements and breathtaking melodies set him far above his contemporaries. [#154, p.93]

Even if it's probably not a classic, it's still pretty damn solid. [Jun 2012, p.81]

Sister Faith is rich with engaging depth and an inventive accessibility that should put the band on the radar of independent music lovers everywhere. [May 2013, p.88]

With This Is Happening, Murphy remains far ahead of pretenders trying to steal his thunder. [Jun 2010, p.107]

Kaputt expresses equal slyness via gratiutious saxophone and trumpet solos. [Feb 2011, p.87]

Fresh and interesting. [Mar 2006, p.138]

His bandmates give him one hell of a canvas on which to paint, with enormous hooks that pull from vintage Saves The Day and the Starting Line while still sounding fresh and exciting. [Jul 2011,p.112]

Ten Stories should easily please any mewithoutYou fan, but this is by no means pandering....11 musically and lyrically engaging stories. [Jun 2012]

As dark as Floral Green may be, the album is dazzling achievement, and a total game-changer for an entire genre. [Oct 2012, p.94]

Rarely can sheer, brute force from a pair like Miller and Krauss make everything that comes afterward seem so irrelevant.

To conveniently label it elecroclash would be a disservice to Out Hud's myriad dynamic contours. [Jan 2003, p.96]

Indestructible is the document of a band retaining their energy and refining their vision to be honest to themselves and their fans, while spitting venom in the eyes of their detractors. [Oct 2003, p.115]

Beam may continue lacing his ragged acoustic with your heartstrings while quietly whispering about a growing understanding of self, but he isn't sitting beneath a pink moon quite yet. That's surely on its way. [May 2004, p.94]

The result is a beautifully sad collision of melody-drenched, aggressive art rock that retains plenty of the fast-paced intensity the band's perfected. [Oct 2016, p.90]

The Dillinger Escape Plan are far from dead and te sound they pioneered is only getting stronger. [Dec 2007, p.171]

They came, they saw, they rocked viciously. [Jul. 2002, p.82]

MOB have managed to preserve their legacy without tarnishing their origins. [Jun 2004, p.92]

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.

Some of [Daniel's] stripped-down material sounds gaunt. [May 2005, p.166]

Of these five tracks, only closer "Thrown Right At Me" is underwhelming, plain where it compatriots are--much like the great plains themselves--full of hidden idiosyncrasies despite outwardly appearing flat and one-dimensional.

The cohesion that made their previous records so captivating has been significantly diminished. [Dec 2005, p.204]