[Weikel and Summers] positively push forward, blissing out with an educated northern soul and a highbrow glide-guitar jones that finds them creating their own space in time. [Aug 2004, p.106]

The Sunlandic Twins feels like a surprise party that could make a broken-hearted birthday boy smile. [May 2005, p.124]

Hughes and his crew blow through the kind of drums 'n' acoustic booty jams that would make R.L. Burnside do ankle-grabs in his grave. [Jun 2006, p.188]

Their most challenging album to date. [June 2003, p.98]

Goofy out-of-time tunes. [Oct 2003, p.136]

Mind-melting Indian-flavored strings... wispy vocal guest turns... and snarling, droning guitar riffs drench Rising in a pleasing psychedelic haze. [Jul 2003, p.124]

The result is Gogol Bordello's best album in their 14-year career. [Aug 2013, p.94]

Researching the Blues is more like a graduate dissertation on power pop, and should be required listening. [Sep 2012, p.94

A great summer album. [Oct 2005, p.170]

A compelling spin. [May 2006, p.164]

If You ever needed proof that great tension can be generated without screaming or dialing an amplifier volume knob all the way up, start here. [Dec 2012, p.90]

You may need subtitles to truly grasp the psychedelic splendor of Devendra Banhart's Smokey Rolls Down Thunder Canyon. [Nov 2007, p.174]

Not a true turkey in the bunch. [#153, p. 83]

While some songs could benefit from a slight edit, Woods still feels complete--and essential. [Jun 2012, p.80]

One of the most joyous and poignant party albums ever. [Feb 2002, p.74]

There are faint notes of Bossa Nova and Kate Bush in Bejar's sunny yet skewed arrangements--femme flights of fancy that brush past '70s and '80s folk-pop without sounding less than organic and original.

Everybody's Coming Down is a spacey rock record with noisy guitars and plenty of dynamics, with all of the endearing alcoholic romanticism that we have grown to love. [Sep 2015, p.97]

Where [Interpol] often seem weighed down by their own miserable aura, Editors sound brightest in teh depths of their blackened pop gems. [Apr 2006, p.204]

Bewitching from front to back. [Jul 2006, p.192]

From a purely musical standpoint, there's no question that this is All Time Low's best work to date.

Deerhunter have long proved themselves to be one of the most inventive bands around and the most deserving of the boatloads of hype and bandwidth that has been devoted to their work. Halcyon Digest solidifies that notion even as they sound like they are evaporating into the ether.

Toth makes a greater effort to rein together all these different musical approaches into a crystalline whole. By doing so, he's inflated his songwriting even further, helping it reach greater altitudes. [Feb 2013, p.94]

Doomsdayer's Holiday shows a band pushing the limits of psychedelic post-rock and testing the boundaries of post-metal. [Dec 2008, p.142]

Hiller's sense of humor and eclectic tendencies make this recording a deep listening experience. [March 2001, p.81]

New Leaves benfits from Kinsells'a vibrant looping and somber monotone lyricism. [Nov 2009]

The entire thing is a cathartic art project that feels like the moment of forced calm after an exhausting sob. [Feb 2014, p.92]

At an age when most of his peers have ceased to be relevant, [Richard H. Kirk] continues to forge highly charged music that seethes with vitality. [#147, p.89]

Moody music that avoids settling on any one sound for more than half a song. [Feb 2004, p.78]