Arguably the most exuberant guitar pop alum of 2020. [Mar 2021, p.87]

His masterful combination of feel and technique reaches frequent peaks, with rousing, Jimi Hendrix-inspired rocker Death Of Me and slow burner I Found Her showcasing his fluid, emotive playing at its best.

LTB’s woes have been rewarded with something remarkable: their best record yet.

Tracks like Horns Below Her Halo and the title one are some of the best in their class. [Summer 2023, p.77]

Songs is a doozy. [Sep 2014, p.93]

The singer and guitarist's seventh album is a sparkling gem in its own right. [Jan 2024, p.78]

The allure and immediacy of the songs is remarkable, the stuff that translates into an instant classic. [Sep 2014, p.94]

Choice cuts from an incomparable half century. [Oct 2025, p.87]

It's a pleasure just to amble alongside him, being blissfully glazed in honey by that extraordinary voice. [May 2020, p.81]

This is an album on which Muse master the wider range of future rock and pop sonics they've been toying with for the past decade and refine and define their current sound as neatly as Black Holes & Revelations did for their 2000s period. [Sep 2022, p.74]

This is a beautiful record, a reflection on an extraordinary 50-year career that's more a memory of life than a memento mori. [Mar 2019, p.89]

Psychic Warfare remains in the same succinct and bullish territory that made Earth Rocker such a straightforward joy.

It is a wonderful life-affirming masterpiece. [Nov 2025, p.74]

It never lags. [Sep 2014, p.95]

With a disc including live outtakes and priceless B-sides, this is an essential collection.

If Bowie gave Hunter the confidence to steer Mott through the hits that started with Honaloochie Boogie and opened up his solo career, the trials and tribulations of the subsequent 42 years have put him in a solid position to dish out sage advice and put cockier elements in their place, which he does on the opening That’s When The Trouble Starts and closing Long Time.

Forty years on, these are still songs and performances few have equaled, let alone bettered. [Sep 2014, p.99]

Every carefully arranged song is packed with indelible hooks, melodic invention and heavenly multi-layered harmonies - all recorded in analogue. [Jul 2024, p.80]

The plastic punk with the cartoon sneer has made his grown-up masterpiece. [Nov 2014, p.90]

A sombre treatise on disaffection and alienation grown old, Songs From A Lost World starkly expresses the post-punk generation’s hallmark traits of malaise and anxiety. Art reflects its era and that’s exactly what this album conveys. [Dec 2024, p.74]

The Hives Forever Forever The Hives is vibrant, loud and sure to destroy dance floors worldwide. [Sep 2025, p.76]

[J Spaceman's] rare communications (this is just his second album in a decade) are generally breathtaking events, and Everything Was Beautiful is no different. [Mar 2022, p.82]

Futurology isn't just the best album the Manic Street Preachers have made this century, it's arguably the best album of the year. [Aug 2014, p. 206]

All nine studio albums are covered, although the sequencing defies logic. [Dec 2023, p.85]

A bona fide, big, stadium-pleasing epic. [Mar 2013, p.95]

These eclectic make-overs [on NEU! Tribute] are pleasingly irreverent and mostly excellent. ... Also worth a fresh listen is NEU! 86. [Oct 2022, p.83]

As a close-quarters portrait of a singer-songwriter at a relatively early stage of his ascension to true greatness, it's hard to beat. [Feb 2014, p.97]

Gritty, punchy and hooky. [Aug 2022, p.67]