Atmospheric, evocative, the psychedelic soul concept work you never knew you needed. [Summer 2022, p.79]

Their best album yet. [Apr 2023, p.78]

The result is the most varied album that Gov't Mule have made, and certainly the most concise. There is no room for noodling, even when the tracks go over the seven-minute mark. [Summer 2023, p.76]

Hawkwind sit in 2025 alongside the kosmische likes of Berlin’s Arcane Allies, making similar forays into space. It’s all good – and this is certainly good. [Jun 2025, p.74]

Their alt.rock energy remains, but their overwrought nu-metal bombast is dialled down. [Jul 2025, p.74]

The best 1983 album released in 2025. [Nov 2025, p.78]

They've crafted their most focused, direct and unburdened collection yet. [May 2025, p.74]

Witness a contemporary twist on the classic R&B revival. Hallelujah.

A fun album, but one in need of trimming and extra heft. [Aug 2022, p.69]

Their seventh album is clever, arch and compelling. [Mar 2026, p.79]

If that’s code for giving the people what they want, he’s delivered. From the moment Edin opens proceedings with 83 seconds of fearless fretwork, there’s guitar everywhere. Sighommi gallops like Iron Maiden taking on Black Sabbath, Goeth The Fall overflows with cascading hooks, and 999 is a reminder that Smashing Pumpkins were always masters of a slow-burner. [Oct 2024, p.74]

Here, White Manna have created grown-up lullabies of the most primal kind.

Old timers and newcomers are invited to reconsider latter-day entries in the Stones hall of infamy. While Doom And Gloom and the sparring couplets of Rough Justice warrant rehabilitation, Streets Of Love’s overblown gaudiness typifies the quality dip that closes disc 2.

Craft's previous work suggested he might have an album in him which is as wry as it is earnestly heroic. This is it. [Aug 2019, p.80]

Continue to sound just as fresh as they did when the band first formed 40 years ago. [Jul 2024, p.78]

Frontman Brandon Coleman is alike a more muscular, less reedy Neil Young. .... A turbulent album. [Aug 2024, p.72]

This music doesn't so much rock as lurch, convulse and blister the paint off your toenails. [May 2026, p.75]

Some imaginative arrangements--notably on a brass-heavy Ghost Of Santa Fe--can’t disguise the fact that the transcendent qualities this music demands are too often absent.

The fine line between contemplation and navel gazing has always been a difficult balancing act to achieve, but here Nathaniel Rateliff, ably backed by the soulful Night Sweats on their fourth studio album, does so without the use of a safety net. And that this collective of musicians does so by breathing new life into established formats is to be applauded. [Summer 2024, p.76]

Moore, along with My Bloody Valentine’s Deb Goodge (bass) and guitarist James Sedwards (Chrome Hoof) and the aforementioned Shelley, is displaying a fine linear growth with Rock N Roll Consciousness.

A smacker. [Jun 2023, p.78]

As you'd expect, musically they're full-tilt melodic punk rallying cries, with the warmth of Greg Graffin's vocals contrasting beautifully against Brett Gurewitz's barbed riffs to suggest there's still a chance for redemption if we stand up and fight. [Jun 2019, p.86]

Now up to seven discs with live set, it's even harder to resist. [Dec 2023, p.85]

Lush and romantic, Evidence is the kind of timeless electronic album you can dream inside. [Mar 2013, p.98]

Arnold's new tunes are belters. ... This album should do the business. [Sep 2019, p.85]

Triumphal stuff. [Oct 2019, p.91]

With Lamar Williams Jr at the mic, there's a funky drift to See The Moon and Rabbit Foot, while Stax legend William Bell claims a stellar credit with the sad and sweetly sung Never Want To Be Kissed. [Feb 2022, p.79]

A bunker-born double (their second) that keeps on giving. [Nov 2022, p.74]