So engaging, you might even forget your phone for 40 minutes. [Mar 2024, p.83]

Bradfield’s invention knows no bounds as he shines light on the darkest corners of history.

Meir is bigger, bolder and broader in its sweep and scale. [May 2013, p.91]

Another triumph. [May 2026, p.78]

Such is the attention to detail that it evokes an eerie world of rattling ghost trains and deserted penny arcades as successfully as a windswept day-trip to Blackpool. [Jun 2021, p.81]

Louris is nonetheless still on top form with Homecoming and his sublimely resigned Then You Walked Away is the pick of the three bonus tracks on the physical formats of the album.

10 short, snappy songs, with as much melodic finesse as there is coruscating noise. [Mar 2023, p.77]

Unlike the mostly acoustic-led Lighthouse, Sky Trails finds him in full band mode, engaging in a nuanced blend of folk, soul and jazz that echoes vintage triumphs like Guinnevere and Déjà Vu.

Despite its subject matter, the Bristol tykes are still sonically and vocally as visceral as ever. [Mar 2024, p.81]

Yo La Tengo have only intensified rather than showed signs of abating. [Mar 2023, p.77]

It's rock. Everything pounds excitedly, Rick Neilsen's guitars garrulous, until the inevitable slow one halfway through as a token node to light and shade. [Dec 2025, p.74]

The humanity is palpable throughout his lyrics and delivery, and the album avoids preaching in favour of insightful storytelling, good humour and warmth. [Sep 2020, p.84]

Seething with anxiety and frontman Jesse Lacey’s trademark sarcastic self‑flagellation, and with a gorgeous production that gives the music space to breathe, it’s an emotional, intelligent work of grace and beauty.

Rip-roaringly emotionally vivid stuff with myriad tropes and devices cherry-picked from the rich tapestry of alt.rock past. [Jul 2023, p.87]

It has stood time's ravages well, both as an indicator of the band's capacity for change and as a great album in its own right. [Jan 2019, 2018, p.93]

A couple of lesser tracks bloat into shapeless abstraction, but overall this is a sonically lavish and formally bold reinvention.

This Stray Cat's strut continues. [Sep 2014, p.94]

A glorious and raucous set of tunes. [Aug 2025, p.79]

A meaty, starry affair.

Uplifting and lovely. [Mar 2023, p.78]

Every song on this fairly short but very sweet album sticks. [Jun 2024, p.76]

A record of sophisticated electronic alt. rock, where the organic and artificial merge wonderfully. [May 2026, p.73]

Gloriously raucous, with memorable tunes that bury themselves deep in the psyche, Bass Drum Of Death encapsulate the spirit of garage rock'n'roll. [Mar 2023, p.79]

Despite the omission of radio sessions and later work, this is a blistering collection of songs by a band at their peak, and a fan-set by and large without compare (the live set alone being a fantastic time machine into a world where cool bands played Mekons covers and swore a lot).

This is a good record mostly because the two men at the heart of it all sound like they’re actually enjoying being The Cult again.

A fine album that’s more imaginative than reimagining.

Ohms is instantly familiar without replicating anything they’ve done before.

Some of the album's best moments come when Wheeler turns the lens on himself. .... With Ad stra Ash are reborn again: older, wiser, but sounding not a wrinkle of it. [Nov 2025, p.74]