While this largely live covers set doesn't necessarily flex the Welsh guitarist's creative muscles, it confirms him as a musician who has the genre under his fingernails. [Mar 2025, p.75]

Suede’s ninth album is a back-to-basics ‘punk’ affair utilising their raw alt.rock thrust to deliver some equally unvarnished personal truths.

This is the best Wire album of this century. [May 2013, p.84]

It's to her credit that this open-hearted material never comes off as cloying. [Oct 2018, p.85]

At 72 Gordon is still smarter, more experimental and more inventive than just about anyone else in the art-rock sphere. [Apr 2026, p.78]

This album drops its bombs with honed precision, the band's experience evident as both the key musical genres - loud and quiet - are deployed with scorching smarts. [Nov 2024, p.77]

Lovers of rock both classic and current will be blown away. [Apr 2015, p.94]

Ever the magpie with a love for shiny trinkets, Weller slips in West Coast Santana-style guitar, Middle Eastern drone, hand claps and honking tenor. References are introduced and then discarded at will. ... Intriguing, to say the least.

Atmospheric, cinematic, dramatic, evocative. [Summer 2019, p.87]

With Childish's standard acerbic lyrics, antagonistic vocals and bluebottle guitar buzz, House On Fire is Medway Delta blues-meets-psychedelic desert rock with a southern gothic vibe. [May 2026, p.74]

An album true to his roots and his wrecked country, unwavering of vision. [Sep 2014, p.88]

A bit mad, but utterly compelling. [Apr 2025, p.77]

Relish the result of an intelligent, engaging act taking a new stand. [Sep 2014, p.90]

A wonderful return. [May 2025, p.79]

Discount the fillers, which are of high, if throwaway, quality and you've a strong 12-banger cracker of a record. [Aug 2025, p.72]

Bob Vylan have become the loudest, most vital voice of righteous rage in a beaten-down nation. [May 2024, p.78]

A fantastic rocket of a record, which adds to the renaissance brilliance of 21st-century Truckers.

This brilliant and beautifully captured set positively vibrates with the atmosphere and thrills that incandescent Warren and his funk 'n' fury-informed cohorts bring to the material. [Mar 2015, p.89]

The Medicine Show is her biggest-sounding album this century. [May 2019, p.84]

It's a singularly engaging soundscape you're strongly recommended to sample. [Jan 2024, p.80]

It's an undeniably intriguing and often inspired collection, shining with genuine heart and humanity. [May 2013, p.86]

Dwyer has led us into yet another musical sphere, one that's proggier, perplexing and ripe for exploration. [Sep 2018, p.89]

A master class in dancing away the heartache. [Jun 2021, p.76]

If you've been yearning for the days when David Draiman shrieked like a nu-metal chimpanzee-cum-wolverine, then Divisive is the album for you. [Dec 2022, p.75]

Arguably their most concise record since 2009's hit-rammed Only revolutions. [Oct 2025, p.79]

It's one in which Plant makes precious few concessions to what's expected of him, and it's all the richer for it. [Sep 2014, p.92]

There’s a healthy sense of experimentation, peaking with wondrous prog-metal epic Halloween Bolson.

These lost gems from the garage are given great care and attention by a band that clearly holds them close to their heart. [Aug 2021, p.80]