This is primarily a curio, but a fascinating one as it indicates directions Young could have taken if the weather had been different that day. [Oct 2023, p.91]

There's a lot to love here. But there's an awful lot of attention paid to the Life House concept, when the actual key to Who's Next enduring brilliance is Riger Daltrey attaining his ultimate incarnation as an exemplary rock vocalist. [Oct 2023, p.92]

What it lacks is a pulse-quickening ‘showcase track’ – a Fire And Water, a Mr Big, a Running With The Pack, a Burning Sky… a (to continue the 12 o’clock theme) Midnight Moonlight, even. It’s all rather countrified and subdued. [Oct 2023, p.84]

Nothing Last Forever might even be the closest approximation yet of what the 60s actually sounded like. [Oct 2023, p.83]

It's a disorienting yet potently addictive mix, reflective of industrial metal's labyrinthine roots in electronica, new wave and beyond. [Oct 2023, p.86]

Ash still put out heart and reliable joy. [Oct 2023, p.86]

A modest masterpiece. [Oct 2023, p.86]

It's an album that rewards repeated immersion within its layers of acoustic guitar, questing strings and Mellotron. [Oct 2023, p.87]

Easily the best since their debut, but there's still a way to go before they produce an LP as fine as that again. [Oct 2023, p.87]

It gets a touch ploddy in the middle, but the motorik of Shanty and electric pulse of Chained To A Cloud channel sanguine sunshine. Thriving. [Oct 2023, p.85]

Predictable as this dynamic may be, EITS are never ponderous, never less than beautiful. [Oct 2023, p.84]

This is a fine monument to Sonic Youth's undimmed, anarchic, arthouse rock'n'roll fury. [Oct 2023, p.82]

It takes a few listens, but once it swims into focus it's another knockout. [Oct 2023, p.82]

Double down on revitalising their music while finding new logs to throw on the philosophical fire. [Oct 2023, p.81]

The best showcase yet for a candid performer for whom the warts are the best bit. [Sep 2023, p.79]

This anthology is front-to-back brilliant. [Sep 2023, p.79]

Allen provides a genre-defining pulse. [Sep 2023, p.81]

Visceral stuff, but here's hoping their post-Fitzsimmons (RIP) era takes The Hives on further unexpected journeys. [Sep 2023, p.80]

An hour in her company is still time well spent. [Sep 2023, p.79]

It's invariably over-punctuated by hyperactive prog-metallic drumming and paradiddly percussion that leaves little space for their ideas to breath, while memorable hooks or riffs get buried in the chaos. [Sep 2023, p.79]

Still producing some of their best material. And on this form there's plenty of bite in this cranky old dog yet. [Sep 2023, p.78]

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

The ramshackle mix of lyrical longing, acoustic guitars and glacial synths would ordinarily be described as Americana, but the lyrics are still as British as fish and chips. [Sep 2023, p.76]

A cohesively themed album lathered in muti-tiered guitars, anthemic chouses and high-density power riffage, tempered by road-honed dynamism and built for the stage. [Sep 2023, p.76]

Finally, there's a modicum of funky glide in his introspective alt.country slide. [Sep 2023, p.81]

One to drown in. [Sep 2023, p.85]

Gilded vocal harmonies and gently chiming guitars are uppermost as the band move through subtle variants of form and texture. [Aug 2023, p.77]

An album packed with absolute love and admiration that is moving and inspiring in the extreme. [Aug 2023, p.79]