An incendiary record from a band teetering on the edge of a crumbling precipice. [Sep 2025, p.78]

A surprisingly vibrant, bright-side kind of album it is too. [Sep 2025, p.78]

A successful continuation of the Babymetal mission. [Sep 2025, p.74]

That it's as listenable as it is intelligent sweetens the deal. [Sep 2025, p.80]

This compelling tenth from the weary-voiced Texan finds him in deeply reflective mode. [Aug 2025, p.77]

Play fast and loose with notions of Americana. [Aug 2025, p.77]

Some early Talking Heads fans would say something was lost when the band lost their preppy soul edge and went down the Byrne and Eno art-school alleyway with their next pair of albums. Others might say More Songs About Buildings And Food suffers from being a halfway house between the band’s early sound and what it would become under Eno and Byrne’s constrictive guiding hand. But even as a transitional record More Songs About Buildings And Food is extraordinary. [Aug 2025, p.83]

Proves that an evening sitting round Weller's record player would be an interesting one indeed. [Aug 2025, p.74]

Outtakes or no outtakes, this reissue manages to pull off the considerable trick of feeling like a complete whole – the first iteration of the classic line-up after Motörhead’s formation in 1975. [Summer 2025, p.85]

A glorious and raucous set of tunes. [Aug 2025, p.79]

A pure pleasure. [Aug 2025, p.75]

While Stephen Wilson Jr. and Sierra Ferrell prove to be capable duet partners, Nelson excels alone with guitar. [Aug 2025, p.77]

Although lacking the shock of the new, Birthing is a far more thematic and aurally darning meditation than most. [Aug 2025, p.74]

Things get rough and rocky in places. .... But the soft centres of Davina McCall and U And Me At Home keep Moisturizer a light and vivifying lotion. [Aug 2025, p.73]

Discount the fillers, which are of high, if throwaway, quality and you've a strong 12-banger cracker of a record. [Aug 2025, p.72]

It's not the most ambitious record in the world - at this stage in their career Bush don't seem to be trying to capture a new audience or to chase the zeitgeist - but I Beat Loneliness does give the impression of a band reaching out to the listeners they know are already there and offering the comfort of emotional understanding and musical familiarity. [Aug 2025, p.78]

Offering no major reinvention. That said, it kicks harder than a mule in lead boots. [Summer 2025, p.82]

Walk This Road is an album as full of joy as it is of craft. [Jul 2025, p.76]

The most motley of crews manage to bring out the best in McCaughey's songs and he's on peak form here. [Summer 2025, p.72]

The weirdly comforting sound of an oddball genius proffering words of hope as the word burns all around us. [Summer 2025, p.78]

Employing rhythmic sideswipes, jarring guitar clangour and dub bass frequencies through a production filter marked 'Mud'. [Summer 2025, p.79]

As ever with the Maels, the relentless high-camp levity and heavily mannered, shrill, staccato delivery can sometimes jar on MAD! [Summer 2025, p.72]

A re-engerised record that sits comfortably next to is 'N' Hers and Different Class. [Summer 2025, p.73]

Its 10 songs are bombastic, unabashed boogies, each one stacked with layer upon layer of symphonic volume. [Summer 2025, p.73]

An ambient suite based on a two-note motif, as if homing in on a detail on Luminal, dwelling on it, tenderly bleeding it dry. [Summer 2025, p.76]

Tracks on Luminal such as Hopelessly At Ease are almost unsettling seductive, while Wolfe's every sung syllable on Shhh looms large and expansive. [Summer 2025, p.76]

Nothing is rushed, nothing hasty, very little upbeat - as befits a band with such a rep for beautiful misery. [Summer 2025, p.76]

God knows what genre it is, but Fairytale Codex is an arty trip into the unknown well worth making. [Summer 2025, p.77]