The intervening nine songs jump between genres with varied success, with a fee whimsical tracks sticking out like sore thumbs. [Oct 2018, p.88]

It works as a powerful artistic statement. [Oct 2018, p.88]

This is taut, Blondie-cool guitar-pop with a finger on the self-destruct tab. [Oct 2018, p.90]

At its core, this is pop music of a rare assurance. [Oct 2018, p.91]

Go To School is a misstep--the sound of talented young musicians over-reaching to the point of unlistenability. [Oct 2018, p.93]

Another strong set. [Oct 2018, p.94]

At Weddings quickly coalesces into an utterly compelling presence. [Sep 2018, p.88]

A Broke Moon Rises sheds a gentle but persistent light in the darkness. [Sep 2018, p.86]

It's always good when, after 30 years as a music critic, the hairs on your arms stand on end. [Sep 2018, p.89]

Slightly mannered vocals; odd but good. [Sep 2018, p.96]

Coup De Grace may not radically change skeptics' perception of Kane as Turner's lesser-half. ... But dig deeper and you'll find Kane's finest work so far. [Sep 2018, p.86]

A sweet, herbal fug hanging over proceedings, Zebra joins the dots between blissed-out Balearica, trippy kosmische, Eastern and Afro vibes and spacey jazz. [Sep 2018, p.91]

Younge's Axelrodish take on orchestral soul dominates. [Sep 2018, p.96]

They know their limits, and while they are prepared to test them, gently, Marauder isn't in the market for revelation. With songs this subtle and steely, though, reinforcement is good enough. [Sep 2018, p.87]

Both parties in this collaboration have been firing off great records at will lately: here's another. [Sep 2018, p.88]

If at times things veer towards needy, the sum of the set is saved by how real it all feels. [Sep 2018, p.92]

A notably mature-sounding record full of gnarly guitars, scrunchy Hammond organ and tuneful innocence lost. [Jun 2018, p.92]

Elaborate, sometimes sneakily poignant tunes. [Aug 2018, p.93]

11 songs thematically linked by a search for realty in an increasingly virtual world. [Sep 2018, p.90]

The follow-up has richer, dreamier contours, but the mood is gaunter. [Sep 2018, p.94]

Occasionally, the album threatens to go Spinal Tap-ish. ... But when Dwyer steeps the prog in garage frenzy, the pot boils. [Sep 2018, p.92]

These songs are solid. [Sep 2018, p.90]

There's an agreeable robustness to proceedings. [Sep 2018, p.91]

Minimal beat-logic and a new-age-ish ability to work below pop's usual emotional horizons sets them apart. [Sep 2018, p.96]

If there's a sense that the material has yet to coalesce to its strongest and most consistent point, there's much that bodes well for High Water II, due in 2019. [Sep 2018, p.86]

What follows is like an eccentric, audacious musical collage that somehow hangs together. [Sep 2018, p.93]

We should've seen this one coming. And still it's a gut punch. [Sep 2018, p.89]

Never quite hits that million-streaming sweet spot. [Sep 2018, p.86]