There's nothing on Everything Ecstatic the likes of Madlib haven't already done better. [Jul 2005, p.186]

Five years later, it's easy to be blasé about [Aidan] Moffat's disgruntled first-person narratives. [#154, p.68]

While there are some nice moments of orchestral pop here, that's hardly enough to carry an entire album. [Aug 2006, p.208]

Comatose-inducing. [Mar 2003, p.94]

James Walsh does have a beautiful voice, but unfortunately, it's not enough to illuminate Starsailor from the shadow of British bands like Travis and Coldplay. [Feb 2004, p.90]

This doesn't say the labum doesn't have its moments, but when you consider the amount of time and patience it takes to get to tthat point, it's hardly worth the payoff. [Apr 2008, p.153]

The Southern-rock grit that used to make Band Of Horses spellbinding is in dangerously short supply, but there's nothing else there to replace it. [Oct 2012, p.84]

Good Charlotte have become caricatures of themselves. [Apr 2007, p.175]

Other than "I Ejaculate Fire," the lyrics aren't that funny--it often seems like Small is trying to write real metal songs. And it's hard to see the point of that.

They sound like Devo playing Nazi military waltzes. [May 2005, p.138]

Succeeds only as an inessential novelty. [Jan 2004, p.98]

Sadly, Modulate comes off as a former punk's clumsy and unsuccessful attempt at diving into a genre that relies less on the organic than it does on the synthetic. [May 2002, p.96]

This is strictly a headphone listen--or, more likely, non-listen. [Nov 2010, p.108]

Amount[s] to little more than a facsimile of their forefathers. [Nov 2004, p.149]

It must have been much more fun to record all of these tracks than it is to listen to them.

A barrage of unfocused fragments that prove this album should have been condensed into a seven-song EP. [May 2004, p.96]

It's light, airy, soothing--and imminently forgettable. [Apr 2009, p.135]

Trinity is almost perversely uninvolving on first listen. [Sep 2002, p.90]

Peter Gabriel's "Solsbury Hill" loosens up into a glittery anthem, while the Righteous Brothers' "You've Lost That Lovin' Feeling" should have stayed a karaoke favorite. [March 2003, p.94]

Seems like a tarted-up version of 1986's Raising Hell.... This is for diehard fans only. [#154, p.87]

Lee's cutesy folk and piano pop leaves us cold. [Mar 2009, p.106]

The wicked dueling guitars of Dan Jacobs and Travis Miguel are about the only saving grace, but even the wildest arpeggio run can't save Congregation from near-total damnation. [Dec 2009, p.116]

Album, boring. [Dec 2004, p.150]

Longtime fans will be comforted by Nightbird, even if it comes off like the fluff Giorgio Moroder might've rejected after a coke bender. [Mar 2005, p.138]

The sound of an artist losing the qualities that made him unique to begin with. [Apr 2006, p.216]

The biggest failure of This Is PiL, sadly, is the band's centerpiece: Lydon. As fine as he can be (see again "Deeper Water"), he sounds downright unhinged. Not in the puckish, sinister way that made PiL live albums so bracing, either-no, his work here sounds tossed off, and too often just plain off.

Noel Gallagher's songwriting is more derivative than ever. [Aug 2002, p.78]

One-dimensional and full of tired tunes. [Sep 2002, p.81]