The sprawling opening (title) track commencing with familiarly tremulous, slow-motion synths inexorably rising and falling, oscillating between exquisite consonance and transient dissonance. [May 2016, p.94]

It's an exploration of the end that assets it's not over. [May 2017, p.88]

Long Island is alive and involving, creating a world of its own. [Mar 2013, p.87]

Another mesmerising, profound, excellent record. [Jul 2023 p.86]

Beyond is the better-produced natural successor to 1987's epochal You're Living All Over Me. [May 2007, p.104]

Meditative, twitchy, cerebral, the Heliocentrics are at once timeless and of the now. [Jul 2017, p.93]

Another hip-rolling, dabke masterclass. [Jan 2020, p.92]

The second CD's half-hour of demos and discards is a repeat-play joy. [Nov 2015, p.102]

While Reggae Film Star is often droll, Jurado's empathy for his characters - from the enduring recriminations of Lois Lambert to the aching isolation of What Happened To The Class Of '65? - often makes for affecting songwriting. [Aug 2022, p.87]

Sumptuous, but still challenging. [Jul 2015, p.92]

A deeper return to that midnight shade of soul frontman Greg Dulli long ago made his own. The grungy tenor of the previous album is now mostly absent. [Jun 2017, p.94]

It may lack the wrong-footing eclecticism that made his name, but makes up for that in pure melodic charm. [Mar 2009, p.109]

Quite stunning. [Jun 2006, p.112]

This record [is] near the top of the band's bejewelled catalogue. [Sep 2014, p.92]

Sea Change aches too thoroughly to be mere career shift. It's the kind of album that at times seems too sad for the singer's own good. [Album of the Month, Oct 2002, p.90]

Thrilling. [May 2003, p.106]

A triumphant second solo chapter. [Oct 2015, p.98]

Brightly flags up their sixth album's abundant strengths. [Jul 2023, p.98]

Amid the thoughts of ultimate demise, the creative juices never cease to flow.[May 2012, p.88]

A bold redrawing of creative frontiers, Lux Prima is a gamble that pays off, handsomely. [Apr 2019, p.88]

'Leather Prowler' is as dank and industrial as you'd hope--but the emphasis is now on songwriting. [Sep 2007, p.112]

Sol Invictus scratches a creative itch created by the band's Second Coming Tour, and reasserts that they will not be second-guessed or pigeonholed. [Jun 2015, p.94]

Here Tyler not so much steps out of the shadows as over to a slightly less darkened corner on nine delicately plucked acoustic daydreams that also showcase his talent for arrangements. [Mar 2011, p.94]

The Lou Reed-approved alt-country band's sixth album. [July 2011, p. 105]

Chance-taking, richly rewarding. [Apr 2019, p.89]

Much will be familiar to JBs devotees... but this time their MOR predilections are more pronounced. [Oct 2006, p.100]

It's A Myth is like a musical Mondrian painting: all bold lines and defined patterns effortlessly delivered, but oblique and enigmatic too. [Jun 2017, p.87]

Radiating breezy melancholic warmth and lonely midnight chills. [Oct 2019, p.89]