Not only is United We Stand a triumph, it's a thrilling love letter to nearly 30 years of alt-rock. [5 May 2012, p.53]

This is as exciting as heavy music gets in 2012. [23 Jun 2012, p.54]

Too often, Living Things is the sound of a band with vast talent, but also one that hasn't figured out where to go next. [23 Jun 2012, p.52]

These songs gleam like freshly polished diamonds. [ 23 Jun 2012, p.53]

It's a study in twisted instrument abuse. [10 Jun 2012, p.54]

On Oceania, Smashing Pumpkins finally sound like a band with an idea of where they're going. [10 Jun 2012, p.52]

It's not what you came in for, but quite pleasant all the same. [10 Jun 2012, p.53]

The Industrialist doesn't quite live up to the band's former glories. [[9 Jun 2012, p.53]

Rest assure, few bands combine hilarity and ferocity as well as Future Of The Left. [9 Jun 2012, p.54]

Bryce's masterful way with a melody shines through once again. [9 Jun 2012, p.54]

Apocalyptic Love, the album, is at its best when Slash is operating within the team. [9 Jun 2012, p.52]

They sound more surefooted. [26 May 2012, p.52]

Th songs are reductive, redundant, unimaginative, and dull. [26 May 2012, p.54]

It's a stunning return to form from a band whose best years, until now, had looked to be behind them. [26 May 2012, p.54]

For every ELO-meets-Panic!-At-The-Disco pop gem that makes you think Fun. are great, there's also an Auto-Tuned-to-buggery vocal or irksome trumpet riff that simply grates. [26 May 2012, p.53]

It's every bit the momentous record it needed to be. [28 Apr 2012, p.53]

The time when even twitter goes quiet and the world belongs to the insomniacs, the troubled and the drunk, all of who will find solace in the Thurlows' urber-moody noisepop. [2 Jun 2012, p.53]

It's edgy. inventive, and occasionally frustrating. [2 Jun 2012, p.53]

It's an album that will divide and delight. [2 Jun 2012, p.54]

Lex Hives may not re-write The Hives' rulebook, it does offer proof that this band sounds heftier and, somehow, even more colorful than before. [2 Jun 2012, p.54]

The result is a fresh, pavement-referencing quirk on tracks Like Son Of A Gun and Boxelder. [2 Jun 2012, p.52]

Fewer songs here race and pulsate as before, but Chuck Ragan and co.'s gruff mix of grit and sweat remains in full effect. [May 2012, p.54]

Not Your Kind of People is a wonderful album full of something Garbage have never really possessed before: humanity. [May 2012, p.53]

Something's horribly lacking here. Namely, actual songs. [May 2012, p.53]

BC's second album fizzes with both upbeat hymns to fun in the sun and achingly sad odes to lost love. [May 2012, p.53

And so, just like that, Tenacious D are back. They're funny, they're absurd and they're hotter than a phoenix. Sorry, fenix. Let's just hope we don't have to wait another six years for the next one. [May 2012, p.52]

It's an utterly loveable album which truly says more in those 13 minutes than some bands manage in entire careers. [19 May 2012, p.54]

In allowing their imaginations to run riot in a gloriously self-indulgent way, they've made a record possessed of an extremity all of its own. [5 May 2012, p.53]