For better and for worse Rancid have never been overly concerned with progress. Yet there's undeniable evolution on the early-Pogues-style stomp of both Hellbound Train and the near hoe-down Devil In Disguise. [Jul 2023, p.82]

Though it's arranged into four old-school sides, lob on a download card full of bonus material and home movies and it's a retro-modern package to make old Muddy's eyes water. [Nov 2013, p.94]

Screen Time is a minor but consistently engaging Moore release, crackling with kinetic tension, forever perched on a knife edge between easy listening and uneasy noise. [Apr 2022, p.77]

It's a relief to find this eighth album bounding up to the gates waving some fresh ideas. [May 2019, p.87]

His love for the music shines throughout. [Apr 2023, p.75]

It's the album's embrace of retro-futurist video arcade electronica on The Doctor and Hooked, verging at times on a lascivious indie Prodigy, that keeps Franz Ferdinand surprising 20 years in. [Feb 2025, p.72]

For its place in his canon, the 4 1⁄2 album is a relatively scant 37 minutes of sessions created around the recording of Hand..., and it’s easy to see where the songs might have fitted into the conceptual jigsaw of the original work.

There are echoes here of The Fall in their Brix-era imperial phase, a clobbering garage-rock physicality spiked with dry wit and subversively sweet melody.

Wraith wrestles drums, bass, guitars and trumpet into sinister electronic shapes informed by towering noise makers such as terminal Cheesecake and textural experimentalist James Holden. [May 2019, p.87]

Producers Andy Zax and Steve Woolard have considerably expanded available sets by Richie Havens, Sha Na Na, Janis Joplin, Mountain and dying-a-death Incredible String Band; but analysis reveals more often just adding one extra track, albiet good ones. [Aug 2019, p.90]

Listening to the earlier mixes accompanying 1979’s In Through The Out Door (7/10) is to be transported to an alternative universe where songs named Blot, The Epic and The Hook (I’m Gonna Crawl, Carouselambra and All My Love respectively) jostle with a scruffier, rambunctious Hot Dog and a sparser In The Evening, the drone intro truncated and Jones’s synths high in the mix.

While the diet hip-hop of Something Different screams, unfortunately, of early noughties jock pop--they've returned with a fun, pacey slab of entirely unthreatening rebellion. [Summer 2013, p.93]

Listening to it is a wonderfully disconcerting experience, each track swirling and merging into new patterns like a murmuration of starlings. [Apr 2022, p.78]

Sunwatchers' third album takes no prisoners with squealing opener New Dad Blues,. [May 2019, p.87]

The end result is a sweet and thoughtful set from one of the genre's lifers. [Oct 2022, p.70]

AntiKpop, anyone? [Jul 2019, p.85]

It's all delivered in a broad range of tech-rock colours. [Apr 2022, p.78]

It's the pace breakers that stand out most. [Nov 2024, p.78]

An album balanced precariously at the tipping point between disillusion and creative rebirth, and all the better for it. [May 2019, p.88]

It needs time to be savoured and reveal its full flavours, a satisfying move in a world of glib instant gratification. [Apr 2022, p.83]

He's done his old boss proud. [May 2019, p.89]

Walks For Motorists cascades, scalds, oozes ectoplasmically and revisits the rusting futures of rock past. [Jun 2015, p.92]

TSOM's strange, taut, heroic beauty invariably transcends irony. [Dec 2018, p.89]

With the other 10 tracks, featuring Roger C Reale’s gruff blues shout and robust brass section, he’s more content to let his liquid economy embellish, deliver spine-tingling solos and drive the funky soul grooves of She’s So Fine and The Go-Getter Is Gone, deploying Soul Man-style hammer riffing on the title track and evoking his Dock Of The Bay on One Good Turn

This eleventh album - earthy, grain-infused Americana folk rock and eerie noir-country in tone - sounding like Hersh sinking deep into the southern soil. [Apr 2025, p.70]

His seventh album is another celebration of the simple things in life. [Jun 2015, p.93]

Living On Mercy finds the songsmith at his sweetest and breeziest. [Oct 2020, p.85]

Though neither Pierce nor Interior vocally, his twang's the thang: brooding, epic, immense. [Jul 2024, p.82]