It makes for a compelling listen. [Mar 2015, p.90]

Perhaps Korn's best album this century. [Oct 2019, p.89]

An inspired madman's tribute. [Dec 2014, p.105]

The duo's genre-mashing tracks remain reliably omnivorous an exhilarating. [Sep 2025, p.79

There’s an intimate warmth glowing throughout the 20 tracks on these two discs as Steve audibly lives every subtle nuance he sings or plays, maybe still with some disbelief that he’s now able to headline Wembley Arena by his lonesome self.

The entire album's tremendous fun, uniquely brilliant and brilliantly unique. [Sep 2025, p.76]

Cartoony, authentic, moving and daft, and the true heirs to the Ramones, Shonen Knife are just great.

The original triple set contained an Apple Jam disc, featuring the notorious It’s Johnny’s Birthday sung to the tune of Cliff Richard’s Congratulations. Whether you need this is up for debate, but the jamming with pals such as Derek And The Dominos and Badfinger feels cleansing, exciting. Rolling Stone called All Things “the War And Peace of rock and roll”. That might be going a little far, but there’s no denying its pull and charm 50 years down the line.

Halestorm have never sounded more comfortably ‘themselves’ than on album six, so after two decades, it seems that their cage has broken at last. [Aug 2025, p.74]

The gold for hardcore fans still long-pocketed enough to remain completists 0 a 41-track Re:call segment corraling non-album alternatives, B-sides and soundtrack work. Of course, this is the only element proper Bowie fans truly want. But do they actually need it when it comes irrevocably bolted to eight CDS of stuff they've already got? .... The Rare stuff? All gravy. [Oct 2025, p.84]

For Free is anything but indulgent. ... David Crosby's late-career purple patch continues. Aug 2021, p.82]

The whole thing sounds like a great lost album. Which of course it is. [Summer 2019, p.93]

A proper ripper. [Mar 2023, p.76]

The fuzzy space rock of Same Hands and Know One Will Ever Know also prick up your ears, bearing testament to a songwriter who never quite fitted in but, for those who took the time to listen, always stood out.

Free is easily Iggy's most ambitiously left-field album since Zombie Birdhouse in 1982. [Oct 2019, p.90]

Don't be intimidated by the heft; this is a tremendous thing. [Oct 2013, p.97]

There are no glib solutions on offer, no political polemic, just the realisation that America is now a deeply divided nation and that this issue needs to be addressed. Elsewhere, the deep soul that Haynes has been mining on some of his solo albums has been brought into the Mule paddock with The Man I Want To Be and Easy Times, along with the more sprightly Sarah Surrender, which has, dare one say it, a Hall & Oates feel.

It's music to glue your arse to a Barclays to. [Sep 2019, p.84]

This is a delight, a cleansing. [Nov 2024, p.77]

This is his biggest, brightest, most crackling and electric album since his Sugar days. [Apr 2019, p.86]

A quarter of a century on, Singles is still a landmark.

Nine albums and 12 years into their journey, Hey Colossus have never sounded better.

This line-up’s chemistry has reached peak levels here, however, leading to astonishingly wild, lysergic adventures in dynamic sound like sprawling opener Cloud Of Forgetting and the bleak, amorphous 21 minutes of Frankie M.

Each and every one of the songs on Priest’s latest full-length Firepower--and yes, we know Legs Diamond were there first--are three-way collaborations between fellow six-stringer Glenn Tipton, frontman Rob Halford and Faulkner himself. And hell, the latter doesn’t so much step up to the plate on this, the second album of Priest’s BOK (Beyond Our Ken) era, as trample it into tiny little pieces.

There is a desperation here, a helpless wonder and dread that lifts Pond above their alt.pop and psych-trance peers. [Apr 2019, p.87]

There’s a freshness in both words and attitude that’s more than welcome in a world of heritage and excessive respect. So until the long-awaited collaboration between Noel Gallagher and Ian Brown emerges, feast your ears on this hugely enjoyable album. [May 2024, p.78]

If you're partial to the glittering seam of music that runs from The Beatles through Badfinger, Alex Chilton, Todd Rindgren, Cheap Trick, Jellyfish and a thousand others, then you're going to love this album. [Jun 2026, p.76]

With Bloom, Larkin Poe prove they’ve got the whole authenticity thing locked down. [Mar 2025, p.76]