This heart-melting exercise in widescreen evocative soul-baring brazenly sets the controls for greatness. [Mar 2019, p.89]

Willfully off-kilter after all this time, The Used are still marching defiantly to the beat of their own drum. [Jun 2020, p.87]

A lockdown album like no other. ... From full-blown fuzz-pedal rock monster to drones and shimmering interplay, highs and stupefying lows. [Aug 2022, p.66]

It's been expertly manicured so you can either lie back and float up, up and away on a breeze of pedal steel, or get up close to the speakers and check the references. [Jun 2024, p.80]

Eerie fingerstyle guitar playing decorates Bibb’s checklist for better living (‘Get to know your neighbours, especially the ones who don’t look like you’). [Jan 2025, p.83]

It's a remarkable evolutionary step forward. [Apr 2025, p.77]

Delicious. [Jun 2025, p.75]

Sure, there are no surprises here but then again, none are needed. [Dec 2025, p.77]

Black And Blue is the sound of an enduring rock’n’roll firm updating the business. .... Expanded versions of this reissue include loose workouts with Jeff Beck, who entertained himself on the Meters-like funk of Rotterdam Jam. [Jan 2026, p.84]

Heady stuff. [Apr 2026, p.79]

A sequel that first celebrates the blooming of a relationship, then self-flagellates for ruining it. [Aug 2020, p.87]

Expressive, feral, soulful, sensual, explosive… On Air? On fire, more like.

Lacks the energy of old Rammstein, but makes up for it in controlled tensions and excellent material. [Summer 2019, p.87]

This is a work of beauty and beastliness in equal measure. [Nov 2021, p.71]

This is essentially raw, acoustic, heartfelt, a 21st-century blues, but heavily treated, clouded with atmospheres, immersed in dub, stretched across the skies, ground finely into the soil. [Sep 2018, p.86]

It's their finest by some distance. [Summer 2021, p.84]

It's another record to follow deep into the bayou, chasing the will-o-the-wisp harmonies. [Dec 2021, p.70]

Anything goes, and dizzyingly does. .... Taste that? It's fresh air. [Jun 2025, p.71]

This fifth edition's half-hour documents their second collaboration with Nurse With Wound and never fully recovers. [Sep 2022, p.83]

Feedback maestro Buck leads the layers of exultant guitar ideas, such as the T.Rex riffs deep in the mix of Shave The Cat, and they help Escovedo drink deep of his sources to climb back into the light.

There are brief pit-stops for pensiveness on the whirling Room 137 and the baroque Barstool Warrior, but the dominant thread is superior thrash.

Thrilling stuff from four Glaswegians with genuine hunger and real passion. [May 2020, p.83]

Bottom line is that live they sound life-affirming. [Jan 2021, p.85]

Anti-glory's an easy in, but you'll need to retune your ears to Horsegirl's particular frequency before this debut reveals its full brilliance. [Summer 2022, p.79]

Infinite Granite resounds with delights in its own ingenuity. [Oct 2021, p.78]

It gets a touch ploddy in the middle, but the motorik of Shanty and electric pulse of Chained To A Cloud channel sanguine sunshine. Thriving. [Oct 2023, p.85]

Yorke's minimalist fragility fits the bill entirely. [Dec 2018, p.89]

This is one helluva return. [Oct 2022, p.77]