Matches vintage MaximumRock'N'Roll short, sharp, DIY hardcore blurts with kindergarten puppetry to baffling effect. [Aug 2023, p.79]

Throughout, this album is a defiantly un-laddish joy. [Aug 2023, p.78]

This is a cavalcade of curiosities, a den of delight, a whole other world where grunge stayed open-hearted and open to misinterpretation. [Aug 2023, p.75]

Mountains finds the 71-year-old Lofgren railing at a world in which the progressive values of the 60s have been superseded by Trumpian self-interest, all in typically melodic fashion. [Aug 2023, p.75]

Starcatcher feels like their most consistent and complete record yet. [Aug 2023, p.74]

Predictably lyrically recherche, self-consciously Fall-esque and potentially driven by weapons-grade PTSD-ah. [Jul 2023, p.86]

An acquired taste, perhaps, but a neat 20s tweak of 90s grunge/grrrl tropes. [Summer 2023, p.79]

Sharp, bright, brilliant. [Summer 2023, p.79]

An entirely charming collection of bilingual Europhile duets. [Summer 2023, p.79]

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

Cable Ties are invariably at their best when teetering on the very brink. [Summer 2023, p.79]

The gritty stomp of Where The Devil Don't Stay and the anthemic thrust of Carl Perkins' Cadillac and Day John Henry Died still resonate. .... The restored extras also hit home. [Summer 2023, p.84]

At times the consistency dips, but Deer Tick can still roll like a classic bar band, and closing track The Real Thing sounds determined and sure. [Summer 2023, p.79]

It's occasionally elegiac, delicate and whimsical on a song like Real Again, with an occasional side of the epic. [Summer 2023, p.75]

While a valuable document for nostalgic attendees, is, unsurprisingly, a hit-and-miss affair. [Summer 2023, p.74]

It bursts with the wide-eyed, childlike wonder that has underpinned so much of his work, interwoven with his uniquely kind, gentle and spiritual voice of wisdom. [Summer 2023, p.79]

This album is all heart, the camaraderie is immense, and Williams assures listeners that's it's not dark yet. [Summer 2023, p.78]

Bright New Disease weaving delightfully through disparate sonic territories, not so much pushing boundaries as booting them off a 100-story building and capturing the ensuant mess. [Summer 2023, p.76]

These lush ambient soundscapes mostly make great backdrops to the 62-year-old crooner's pithy musing and archly allusive lyrics, especially on more widescreen numbers. [Summer 2023, p.75]

Compulsive melodic momentum is the band's blood, but Hammond's experimental leanings keep it rich, surprising and deeply rewarding. [Summer 2023, p.74]

His vocal range and tone might now haunt the hinterlands often visited by Tom Waits and Bob Dylan, but the rasp from those hard-lived years adds a wonderful lustre to the songs and subjects he’s addressing and the things he’s chosen to write about now. [Jul 2023, p.82]

They can still craft the odd pop-rock banger. [Jul 2023, p.87]

With Life Is But A Dream… Avenged Sevenfold haven’t just transcended their metal peers for good, they’ve also created their definitive artistic statement. And it’s bloody fantastic. [Jul 2023, p.80]

Romy Vager's vocals are raw, earnest, and Tambourine is Brain Worms distilled, a taut memoir of remote mourning. [Jul 2023, p.87]

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]

Some of the lengthier behemoths among the seven tracks here, though, particularly the sprawling Flamethrower are a little overblown and tend to lose their way at times. Despite that, PetroDragonic Apocalypse is another worthy entry into King Gizzard's avalanche of ever-changing albums. [Summer 2023, p.77]

The classic stoner rock we know from QOTSA is alive and well, but on this record they've pushed themselves into the more experimental corners of their psyche. [Summer 2023, p.74]

Those with sensitive ears will find its more extreme moments indigestible, but it remains impressive stuff. [May 2023, p.78]