Immensely satisfying. [Jul 2013, p.92]

More robust moments provide the necessary shift but, with all its delicate finesse, Forgetting The Present largely prefers to take its oblivion lying down. [Aug 2014, p.86]

An hour of absorbing rhythmic transport, The Visitor fully satisfies the brief. [Aug 2013, p.84]

Highlights a voracious creative appetite and their relationship's enduring strength. [Dec 2020, p.87]

Cruel, sexy and offhand by turns. [Jun 2004, p.114]

A glistening hybrid. [Dec 2020, p.87]

Gregg's vocal technique was remarkably intact despite his illness, as was his trademark ability to convey love, honesty, anguish. [Nov 2017, p.97]

The edges of 2019's Candy Colored Doom have sharpened: her voice and guitar sheer off into abrasion on Metal Bird. [Feb 2022, p.85]

A reverberant, high-octane treatise on the transcendent power of love and loud music. [Dec 2018, p.94]

Mehldau takes the listener on a memorable musical journey. [May 2022, p.92]

Crudely put, it is the sequel to Love And Theft, which is to say that a great deal of it is split between 12-bar treatises about love and lust and croonsome ballads about much the same themes.... That said, it is not quite as sharply focused as that record. [Oct 2006, p.94]

These are certainly boss songs – Easter Lily feels like the strongest collection of material U2 have mustered in at least 20 years.

A thrilling 90-minute swansong. [Oct 2023, p.93]

Less electronic in feel than its predecessor, this is music on a truly human scale in terms of its inspiration, delivery and undeniable emotional punch. [Mar 2019, p.97]

She delivers intelligence and sensuality like she never saw a line between them. [Mar 2016, p.98]

It's funny, touching, thoughtful, more than a little weird....and rather wonderful. [Feb 2013, p.89]

Imbued with harmonies, melody and some hard-edged dynamics that draw on Led Zeppelin, this is what the pastoral Pink Floyd of 1971 might have done next. [Apr 2016, p.91]

Challenging it may be at points, but absorbing and complex too. [Dec 2013, p.94]

His own voice is a marvel too, heartfelt and luminous. [Apr 2016, p.96]

Kids In The Streets sounds joyous, reflective, nostalgic and even grateful in places, with an upbeat swagger that comes from knowing you're making the album of your life. [Jul 2017, p.89]

Ignoring the meek opener Looking For A Fight and any rote lyrics, the instantly likable Outta My Mind and Dead in Your Head are a master class in girl group jangle pop. [May 2013, p.95]

This cool and stylish record should make the jazz best-of-year lists. [Apr 2024, p.90]

A sometimes disturbing, but often breathtakingly lovely record. [Oct 2002, p.98]

Titles like Telekinetoscopes and After The Visions are as gripping as the levitating grooves and flickering pulses that accompany them. [Jan 2023, p.93]

Bleach sounds liked a valiant manifesto for something new that succeeded beyond anyone's wildest nightmare. [Dec 2009, p.112]

This is spare, emotionally charged piano music which always errs toward the melodic side of melancholy. [Mar 2010, p.99]

The Magic Place is her most fully involved album, suffused with the warmth of fond memories and a deep, dream-like resonance. [Jun 2011, p.96]

A follow-up that finds the pure-toned Montreal-based singer painting with a wider palette, thanks to backing from pianist Felix Fox-Pappas and Toronto jazzers BADBADNOTGOOD. [Mar 2023, p.89]