This absorbing new venture is essentially a set of unaccompanied musical dialogues between the two veterans. [Jul 2012, p.94]

Represents a major leap forward. [Nov 2003, p.130]

What makes The Complete BBC Sessions so compelling is that it's mostly work-in-process, and Zeppelin veer played a song the same way twice. [Oct 2016, p.107]

Tina's mesmeriing pop-psych is also a fascinating conundrum. [Jan 2021, p.91]

Frequently gorgeous collection of slow-motion jazz standards. [Feb 2026, p.87]

Expands Casiotone For The Painfully Alone's frighteningly austere template to an almost symphonic level of opulence. [Jul 2006, p.102]

Musically satisfying. [Apr 2026, p.93]

Closure is more substantial than that implies, carrying on the more direct approach of 2005's Disaffected. [Feb 2017, p.95]

Supreme Balloon is an airy sphere of joyful electronic possibility. [June 2008, p.103]

If there's little of the duelling gamesmanship that made their 1993 debut so remarkable, this is still a joyful comeback, brimming with big screen music. [Feb 2015, p.91]

Ndegeocello's covers album comprises wonderful takes on R&B and soul. [May 2018, p.98]

The result is a record so euphoric and emotionally direct that understanding the words is not a prerequisite. [Jun 2025, p.86]

She has the same jagged, enchanting sensuality as Bjork. [Mar 2012, p.103]

Original, but with traces of early Dizzee, Rodney P and The Streets in Slowthai's savvy grime-punk. [Jun 2019, p.96]

James's reputation as one of electronic music's most daring, inquisitive artists grows record by record. [Dec 2022, p.91]

Living Fields is no instant hit, but the twilight world you're eventually drawn into is difficult to leave. [May 2015, p.98]

It's a triumph for experimental chemistry: dramatic, deeply felt, dynamically designed. Minor Victories might've been put together at a distance, but it's all there. [Jul 2016, p.92]

This is her best to date, but she'll be better yet. [Sep 2002, p.102]

In Colour really comes into its own when Jamie xx gets abstract and confounding; where his ability to conjure something wonderful from mosaic, non-linear paths is most evident. [Jul 2015, p.84]

A debut of undeniable quality. [Oct 2004, p.106]

The 50th-anniversary edition affirms the underrated triumph in Cahoots. [Feb 2022, p.97]

Warning: the only rarity of note in this reissue, outside the remix narrative, is Lennon running down I’m The Greatest in a near-Beatles reunion with George Harrison and Ringo Starr – and that’s tucked away as a hidden bonus track. The Mind Games you get instead, in this lavish, rejuvenating treatment, is the several brighter, bolder albums it might have been, on the way to the one that fell flat in 1973. [Aug 2024, p.92]

Display[s] a lurid intelligence that seeks to explore an alternate American history. [Oct 2004, p.102]

A worthy addition to the genre. [Nov 2016, p.92]

If any art is currently encapsulating the sense of "wrongness" abroad in our land, this is it. [Dec 2018, p.82]

The superb Ditherer belies its title with head-on immediacy even if it giddily ignores the confines of triangular rock. [Sep 2007, p.108]

The street-wise intellect certainly lets his slightly off-pitched voice do most of the heavy-lifting over the stuttering spacey synthetics, phased keys and warped Rhodes of B-Roc's atmospheric production. [Apr 2017, p.95]

Exudes warmth. [Dec. 2011 p.94]