Some of the album's best moments come when Wheeler turns the lens on himself. .... With Ad stra Ash are reborn again: older, wiser, but sounding not a wrinkle of it. [Nov 2025, p.74]

Some reasonably good live music (Elephant’s Memory bring to Lennon’s music a bluesy heaviness that sometimes suits it and sometimes doesn’t), some intriguing demos (arguably the best material here, whether it be rare Lennon originals or decent rock’n’roll covers) and most of Some Time In New York City, an album that suffers from: a) being terrible, especially The Luck Of The Irish, a song that makes Ed Sheeran’s Galway Girl sound like The Chieftains), and b) the omission of its one great song, whose title means it has been excised from the album. One for the history buffs. [Nov 2025, p.84]

Extensive sleeve notes featuring a perfect potted history by CR writer Mark Beaumont and background detail on each track by Gedge help make this a must have. [Oct 2025, p.87]

The result, albeit low-key, is a charming, warm-hearted collection. [Oct 2025, p.79]

While it might be pushing it some to claim it, The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway is a “weirdly prescient precursor of punk”, as Alexis Petridis suggests in the sleevenotes to this reissue. And there is no doubt as to its influence or longevity. [Oct 2025, p.82]

Overall this live album confirms how solidly he has established his post-Smiths identity. [Oct 2025, p.78]

They're a strange band. In places it's as if they've accidently ended up in a room together and just carried on doing their thing, and by some weird magic it all comes together - a game of aural chicken which no one backs down but everybody wins. [Oct 2025, p.78]

Plant's journey continues ever on, and it's one worth falling in step with. [Oct 2025, p.72]

Arguably their most concise record since 2009's hit-rammed Only revolutions. [Oct 2025, p.79]

Singer Izzy Baxter Phillips brings a rich, seductive lustre to spacey nu-grunge songs of lust, addiction, sexual assault, neuro-divergence and emotional exhaustion. [Oct 2025, p.76]

As soon as that marvellous voice opens up on the gorgeous chorus of this album's Don't Lose Sight you already know he's fashioned another one [great record]. [Oct 2025, p.72]

33 years in, Suede aren't treading any water. [Oct 2025, p.78]

Fans of Byrne's spiky post-punk oddball persona may feel short-changed, but his latter-day incarnation as a folksy, funny, starry-eyed romantic hits rhapsodic new heights here. [Oct 2025, p.73]

A collection of songs so sugar-coated it should probably have been packaged with insulin. [Oct 2025, p.72]

This second solo album dissects an array of internal torments in scarifying style; more gruesome and brutal than ever, and often glitching like a fractured psyche. [Oct 2025, p.72]

Single My Mind IS A Mountain may open the record in brash fashion, but by lush centre points Souvenir and CXZ, Deftones feel both comfortably themselves and completely unpredictable. [Oct 2025, p.72]

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

The sound that would soon seduce millions was already here. There's Buckingham's unique Flamenco-tinged guitar sound, evident throughout, for a start, as well as Nicks' already assured songwriting. [Oct 2025, p.87]

The gold for hardcore fans still long-pocketed enough to remain completists 0 a 41-track Re:call segment corraling non-album alternatives, B-sides and soundtrack work. Of course, this is the only element proper Bowie fans truly want. But do they actually need it when it comes irrevocably bolted to eight CDS of stuff they've already got? .... The Rare stuff? All gravy. [Oct 2025, p.84]

Arctic Moon is an album that works for both the long haulers and the novices. [Oct 2025, p.79]

The entire album's tremendous fun, uniquely brilliant and brilliantly unique. [Sep 2025, p.76]

Halestorm have never sounded more comfortably ‘themselves’ than on album six, so after two decades, it seems that their cage has broken at last. [Aug 2025, p.74]

The duo's genre-mashing tracks remain reliably omnivorous an exhilarating. [Sep 2025, p.79

They're clearly having a blast, in every sense - there's enough noirish sarcasm to make that clear - but there's also a punk nihilism at play that makes this debut album a compellingly unsettling listen. [Sep 2025, p.77]

This is all quality stuff from a name you can trust. [Sep 2025, p.80]

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

"No Hope", "Everybody Dies" and "Care Less" all sound like phrases scratched on a teenager's notebooks, but The majesty of their songwriting craft - imagine The Byrds if Evan Dando had sat in for the session - makes even the darkest of days feel like a new dawn. [Sep 2025, p.81]

It might be ultimately pointless, but it works because Fogerty's voice is so extraordinarily intact and because the songs are still invincible. [Sep 2025, p.77]