It may be one of the least "punk" albums a pop-punk band will make this year--but it's probably one of the best, too. [Feb 2006, p.113]

The music on The Indian Tower is relentless. [Mar 2006, p.130]

The words are as bleak as ever, and the songs still cut like coal-black shards of anti-pop bitterness. [Apr 2006, p.204]

It's anything but a lo-fi vanity project. [Mar 2006, p.138]

It's sometimes an odd fit, but the friction sparked from these mismatched traits lends Detrola an eccentric charm. [Apr 2006, p.222]

[A] divine disc. [Apr 2006, p.207]

Sounds rather pedestrian. [Jan 2006, p.142]

Sound[s] like the work of a band once again coming into their own. [Feb 2006, p.128]

Most of [the remixers] subtly tweak the originals into charming facsimiles of Beck's clap-happy, orchestral folk-blues funk ditties. [Mar 2006, p.138]

The best Def Leppard album "Mutt" Lange never wrote. [Feb 2006, p.126]

Could pass for a set of lo-fi synth demos Sir Paul McCartney cooked up one long weekend for shits and giggles. [Feb 2006, p.130]

Despite the variety and many obvious influences... the Greenhornes leave their own unique fingerprint on every song. [Feb 2006, p.126]

Hypnotize isn't a radioactive pile of suck, but had the Down boys offered some genuine hairpin turns in their aesthetic, there might be more reason to pursue a more meaningful dialogue that transcends the tired notion of "System just being System." [Jan 2006, p.127]

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

Sound[s] equally as interesting, but rarely as essential, as the studio material from which it's drawn. [Feb 2006, p.120]

The collaboration is far from perfect... but the players take plenty of risks, ultimately emerging with a new sense of discovery and a whiff of greatness. [Feb 2006, p.120]

The songs, though we've heard them many times before, take on a surprisingly fresh and delicate new identity. [Feb 2006, p.122]

As exhausting as it is brilliant. [Dec 2005, p.202]

Rogue Wave now resemble a more earnest Flaming Lips. [Dec 2005, p.204]

While The Campire Headphase sounds slightly defalted compared to [earlier] discs, it stlll has many charms. [Jan 2006, p.144]

It's DM's ability to make you dance and look over your shoulder--sometimes simultaneously--that makes them relevant. [Dec 2005, p.212]

For an elite cadre of sound warriors, the disc perfectly bridges Slayer's demonic metallic riff majesty with the maniacally convoluted dynamics of French prog-rockers Magma. [Dec 2005, p.216]

The fullest sounding Silver Jews album to date. [Nov 2005, p.210]

It's not that Hey People! is bad, because it's not--but it's not that good, either. [Feb 2006, p.126]

Strange Geometry is a comely piece of old-fashioned melancholy pop, but it can also quickly turn into sonic wallpaper if you have a wandering mind. [Dec 2005, p.202]

There are enough interesting moments... that each spin reveals a new nuance that makes this genre roundrobin worth signing up for. [Nov 2005, p.218]

Both participants' artistic weaponry [is] set for "stun" instead of "kill." [Dec 2005, p.216]

Cinder proffers the majestic sweep of a nature documentary. [Nov 2005, p.208]