If you're kind of person who needs some wallop in your music, Your Wilderness is probably not for you. However, if you're partial to ethereal music so gentle it feels like it might break if you pay too much attention to it, then prepare to fall in love. [20 Aug 2016, p.68]

This is what Blue Pills do best, daring to imagine what it would have been like if Aretha Franklin fronted Deep Purple in a cosmic blur of crackling fuzz and feel-good soul. [20 Aug 2016, p.67]

This reminds us how life-affirming their music can still be. [6 Aug 2016, p.53]

Away from the band which he made his name, the fingerprints of one of America's finest rock bands are present and correct. But away from the stripped down monster-balladry of It Ain't Easy, under his own wing Steven is capable of a few surprises. [6 Aug 2016, p.52]

Robert Schwartman may well looted Rivers Cuomo's brain given how wonderfully Weezer-y it gets. [6 Aug 2016, p.52]

It's an album best-judged as its monumental whole: the sound of endless possibilities. [18 Jun 2016, p.52]

They might have official veteran status but these old dogs remain as vital and exciting as ever. [29 Jul 2016, p.50]

We're actually on a genre-bending journey between esoteric magnificence and chest-crushing heaviness. Good is good. [30 Jul 2016, p.53]

The heaviest and catchiest thing the Washingtonians have unleashed--and the most moving, too. [23 Jul 2016, p.52]

It all moves along at a slow-burning pace, rather than the usual cocky swagger. [20 May 2016, p.52]

Command The Weather quickly becomes boring through repetition. [9 Jul 2016, p.52]

The apocalyptic tone that hangs over much of the record is suffocating, in the best possible way. [9 Jul 2016, p.52]

Ultimately, the record's slower moments, Life Can't Get Much Better and Reason To Stay, keep Youth Authority from reaching the heights of their triple-platinum The Young And The Hopeless. Nevertheless, this collection of bright and lively summer anthems makes Good Charlotte's return a welcomed one. [9 Jul 2016, p.50]

It's not a "big" listen, and there are no killer tunes, but seeking such obvious moments would be missing the point. [16 Jul 2016, p.52]

Ellipsis is the band's best album since Puzzle. [16 Jul 2016, p.50]

These eight tracks bind the smart emo of Brand New to the rootsy alt.country of a Bright Eyes or Ryan Adams, stroking nostalgia and tugging the heartstrings throughout. [2 Jul 2016, p.52]

blink's most musically ambitious, yet spiritually comprehensive, album to date. [2 Jul 2016, p.50]

They might not be as abrasive as they once were, but Whitechapel still know how to bulldoze the opposition. [25 Jun 2016, p.52]

Classic, classy, and it absolutely rocks. [25 Jun 2016, p.52]

With a raw energy that engrosses even the casual listener, this Manchester quartet simply take your attention without asking. [25 Jun 2016, p.52]

Those looking for the conventional will find it, relatively speaking, in the sparseness of When Will I Return?, while the near-29-minute title-track--like the album it's housed on--is both a journey and a total trip. [25 Jun 2016, p.53]

An album that, while not Thrice's best, still soars above the competition. [25 Jun 2016, p.51]

Some of the tracks judder with a rhythm to which you cam only dance when in the throes of an electric shock. But as wearisome as these sections tend to be, they are almost wholly redeemed by moments of musical brilliance, moments which border on the sublime. [25 Jun 2016, p.50]

The 10 blasts of raging hardcore, death metal and stomach acid they vomit here are delivered with the worst of intentions. [4 Jun 2016, p.51]

[A] brilliant album. [18 Jun 2016, p.51]

Occasionally its brilliant--as on the thumpy disco electronics of V.I.T.R.O.L. and the sweetly memorable Hold Your Fire. Sadly, an equal amount of it flounders in a haze of boring shoegaze. [11 Jun 2016, p.53]

It does meander in the middle, but mostly this is an admirable step in Katatonia's ongoing quest to keep their identity fresh. [18 Jun 2016, p.52]

Their sixth album finds them stepping into a world where bands like PVRIS have started to occupy a similar space to Shirley Manson and co. It's only made Garbage themselves better. [11 Jun 2016, p.53]