It's tip-top stuff. [Jul 2025, p.81]

Close To The Noise Floor covers the full spectrum from sublime to ridiculous, but the sheer range of sonic innovation, warped beauty and dark humour here is hugely impressive.

Their impressive fourth album punches like a clenched claw. [Jun 2025, p.71]

Wild, weird and wonderful, Dark Matter/Dark Energy is a lysergic punk triumph.

Love Chant is a wonderful and surprisingly vital return to the fray. [Nov 2025, p,75]

The New Abnormal is less new big bang, more engrossing sizzle. [May 2020, p.76]

This regular release offers reminder enough of just how special this band is when they're on form. [Jan 2024, p.86]

Although lacking the shock of the new, Birthing is a far more thematic and aurally darning meditation than most. [Aug 2025, p.74]

It has arena-rock attitude, but contained within songs and performances that are a lot more intimate and highly charged than you might expect. Slash’s punchy guitar style complements Kennedy’s passionate vocals, and in doing so brings to mind what Aerosmith achieved in the late 80s. [Sep 2018, p.88]

Among their best albums in a 30-plus-year recording career. [May 2020, p.76]

Throughout, Morrison makes old songs sound new and brings the enthusiasm of a teenager to an old man’s record. [Dec 2023, p.78]

While Stephen Wilson Jr. and Sierra Ferrell prove to be capable duet partners, Nelson excels alone with guitar. [Aug 2025, p.77]

They’ve filtered their inheritance through their own jam-band generation, and the sound is heavier, muddier at times, and Duane Allman’s ‘crying bird’ slide guitar has become more of a screaming bat.

Fabulous, fun and irresistible. [May 2013, p.87]

Ascension hits the sweet spot between the gnarliness they've re-embraced over the last decade and the goth-tinged grandeur and sense of melody that has always been a part of their music. [Oct 2025, p.75]

The music is quirky, textured Americana. [Sep 2014, p.93]

It may have been a long wait, but The Mandrake Project is easily one of Bruce Dickinson’s boldest projects, and it goes to show there is almost nothing that this band frontman/fencer/pilot/author can’t turn his hand to. [Apr 2024, p.82]

Sounding refreshed and revitalised. [Jul 2024, p.78]

Citizens of Boomtown is a startling selection of classically punchy songs. [Apr 2020, p.87]

It's lush, grown-up, thoughtful, funny and very good. [Sep 2014, p.93]

The sound that would soon seduce millions was already here. There's Buckingham's unique Flamenco-tinged guitar sound, evident throughout, for a start, as well as Nicks' already assured songwriting. [Oct 2025, p.87]

Right now, though, they’ve rediscovered themselves, and there’s no reason why a new audience can’t discover them.

It’s a package that’s pretty hard to improve on but this anniversary edition tries its damnedest to turn things up to eleven.

Another cracking album. [Sep 2023, p.80]

It's built to be savoured, not rushed. [Sep 2014, p.94]

The result is a direct, delicious assortment. [May 2015, p.104]

For all the grim despondency, this is an album steeped in the acrid stench of beauty. [Mar 2019, p.88]

The Overview is not so much a return to form (Wilson hasn’t been off it) as a return to full-fat, unskimmed prog from the man whose work with Porcupine Tree gave the genre a good name even before it earned reappraisals in more recent years. [Apr 2025, p.72]