Back in the saddle as bandleader, his tangible labour of love defiantly captures old-school New York’s cross-pollinating melting pot with rich infusions of Latin (Party Mambo), blues (I Visit The Blues), blaxploitation (Vortex), classic rock’n’roll (Superfly Terra Plane), Southside Johnny And The Asbury Jukes (Soul Power Twistin’) and still making a social point on Education.

Old timers and newcomers are invited to reconsider latter-day entries in the Stones hall of infamy. While Doom And Gloom and the sparring couplets of Rough Justice warrant rehabilitation, Streets Of Love’s overblown gaudiness typifies the quality dip that closes disc 2.

The Leeds-launched provocateurs still sound sharp and lean. [May 2019, p.88]

The Medicine Show is her biggest-sounding album this century. [May 2019, p.84]

Like the best Stones songs, there’s never any dating Keith’s immortal spirit, and Talk Is Cheap holds its head high as it relentlessly reaffirms that that was indeed some knife.

Noise & Romance offers a much more disjointed, disorienting and unpolished experience. [May 2019, p.84]

Historically priceless, but intrinsically one for the fans. [May 2019, p.94]

A stylish lo-fi gumbo of grunge, punk and indie. [May 2019, p.89]

You still have a man born with the gift of a sandpaper voice, which seems to shred itself afresh with every word. [Apr 2019, p.84]

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

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

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

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]

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

All bets are off, all doors open and consciousness is expanded. [May 2019, p.86]

There's a sort of crazy idealism to their music which brings them tantalizingly close to such sources, while becoming increasingly indomitably themselves. [Apr 2019, p.84]

Resist is more an evolution than a revolution in the band's sound, which tightens up and augments everything that was great about 2014's Hydra. [Feb 2019, p.91]

A disappointing mess. [Apr 2019, p.89]

A surprising distillation of longing, memory and loss. [Apr 2019, p.88]

Hexed isn't a repetition of what's gone before, and sounds reasonably fresh. [Apr 2019, p.89]

These songs are well worth revisiting for turn-of-the-century emo kids reminiscing on their misspent youth. [Apr 2019, p.95]

An atmospheric yet strutting cocktail of dark romance, louche sax lines and bluesy grit. [Apr 2019, p.89]

King monkey contemplates his navel. [Apr 2019, p.89]

A quaintly dated second set haunted by cliche. [Apr 2019, p.89]

Dark, twisted, twisting. [Apr 2019, p.89]

Blue Sky is 33 minutes of fearless, peerless and unvarnished brilliance. [Apr 2019, p.88]