It's a decent disc that'll simultaneously satisfy your cravings for pop music and the avant-garde. [Dec 2008, p.153]

Though some tracks lull more than thrill, that seems to be the goal. [May 2009, p.114]

By letting the listener into his universe this time, Washed Out have created an album that inhabits you as you inhabit it. [Sep 2013, p.94]

This should be among Perry's higher-profile efforts in some time, with production by Andrew WK, and guest appearances by everyone from Moby to Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt. [Oct 2008, p.150]

Man Man are still digging around in a diverse bag of influences. Fortunately, they keep pulling out winners. [Sep 2013, p.90]

The fast parts are faster, the hard parts are harder, and the melodic sections are more memorable. [Oct 2001, p.102]

While Folie A Deux at times feels like the band are showing off the contents of their Rolodex, the album's standouts are so good that they will undoubtedly become standards for the band's live shows for years to come.

Gemini, Her Majesty is by and large a step back towards the fertile brilliance that rightfully gained Rx Bandits exposure in the early 2000s, recapturing the jubilant mix of styles they deployed with so much fresh aggression and poise.

Quite an impressive start. [Aug 2006, p.206]

It's a sharp effort taken in pieces, but as a whole, it's a little lacking.

Despite some bummer subject matter, this could be the year's most fun album. [Nov 2013, p.84]

He comes closer to rediscovering the excitement, ethereal looseness and raucous twang that epotomizes his first three efforts than he has any time in the past 15 years. [Jul 2010, p.123]

True to form, the band deliver yet again on Car Alarm. [Nov 2008, p.155]

Overall, this collision of dirty loops and polished pop is Information you need. [Dec 2006, p.198]

Even at his most commercial, Jake stays true to his groove. [Jan 2008, p.131]

This 13-track disc can be heard as a welcome return to basics. [Aug 2011, p.118]

While the album has bright spots, overall it feels a bit dull and without the spark that made 1998's "Midwestern Songs Of The Americas" so fresh and exciting. [Dec 2008, p.132]

brand new eyes astonishes from start to finish. [Oct 2009, p.111]

In spite of the repetitiveness, Fucked Up Friends comes out gold and crispy and ready, for you to get your hands on it. [Nov 2008, p.164]

Confident, unselfconsciously weird and always engaging, Welcome Oblivion is a strange world that will draw you back again and again. [Mar 2013, p.88]

LFO executes these retro moves with flamboyance and subtlety, so we can forgive Bell his derivativeness. [Nov 2003, p.118]

Relentless rhythms and boisterous basslines propel the disc's quick-paced tunes to their catahrtic capital-letter choruses. [Aug 2003, p.104]

Dark and compelling. [May 2004, p.104]

To Rococo Rot don't need more bounce in their already metronomic step, so I-Sound shows the group on this collaboration how to add a bit of swagger. [#155, p.86]

Sounds like every other disc Matador has released by them. [Oct 2004, p.134]

Fila's prowess on bass and guitar keeps the music feeling more composerly than other, more sample-heavy excursions. [Apr 2002, p.74]

There's a handful of tracks that should have been left on the cutting room floor to slim down the set, but Heart Attack is undoubtedly a step up for Man Overboard. [Jun 2013, p.91]

A must-hear. [May 2005, p.138]