Pay No Mind plays appealingly like The Jesus And Mary Chain slowed to 16 rpm. Then, just as you're settling into drowsy twilight, out of nowhere, a lyric smacks like citrus on the tongue. [Jun 2018, p.89]

Panic Blooms generates fond memories of a recent past. [Jun 2018, p.89]

All in all, the Monkeys' sixth long-player is a bold move. [Jun 2018, p.95]

While still connected to soul's sacred wellspring, frames his artisanal songcraft in more modernist settings. [Jun 2018, p.95]

While a little slavish in worship of her influences, these seven icy near-instrumentals conjure a gripping imaginary thriller in the mind, their glacial electronic melodies underpinned by taut rhythms. [Jun 2018, p.89]

Upbeat episodes are outweighed by melancholic drama. [Jun 2018, p.88]

The magic of DJ Koze lies in the unique complex musical terroir he's built. [May 2018, p.93]

Meticulously constructed, yet with melodies and rhythms born out of improvisation, it's an album of two halves, moving from euphoric collapse to an uncertain contentment. [Jun 2018, p.89]

It's often a mess, but to witness he process is genuinely exhilarating. [Jun 2018, p.88]

Morrison elevates his game on a set weighted equally between blues standards and visits to his own back catalogue. [Jun 2018, p.91]

What remarkable about the Roxy recordings, though, is the focus an power of the Santa Monica Flyers. ... The live performances a few days later are more robust, without diminishing the wired ambience. [Jun 2018, p.103]

Friedberger's finest solo album to date. ... Supple, elastic, and in forward motion, it loses nothing in translation. Vibrate, resonate. [Jun 2018, p.86]

The vignettes pack enough detail and emotion to work as well in short fiction form. [Jun 2018, p.97]

Young's soundtrack to his partner's film is similarly random, but when it hits the right mark, it too dazzles. [Jun 2018, p.88]

No. 4 is a warmer, more cohesive work than 2015's No. 3. [Jun 2018, p.93]

Reassuringly autumnal, it drifts by with the grace of a soaring kite. [Jun 2018, p.88]

It's pleasant enough, but suffers for not taking songs places they've never been. [May 2018, p.98]

Feels like a belated sequel to Laraaji/Eno's 1980 Day If Radiance. [Jun 2018, p.97]

There's little dry about old guy jokes. [Jun 2018, p.97]b

At once brooding and beautiful. [Jun 2018, p.97]

It doesn't all work; but when it does, it's wonderfully widescreen. [Jun 2018, p.96]

Most of the songs are observations from an emotional distance. [Jun 2018, p.96]

Kindness sees Andrews play the traditional diva, brilliantly so on the swelling, epic title track. Elsewhere, shadowed by atmospheric tremolo guitar and elements of Memphian soul, Andrews injects Americana archetypes with tenderness and empathy. [Jun 2018, p.96]

Keith's surreal wordplay has one leg planted firmly in the future, ensuring Dr. Octagon is still one of a kind. [Jun 2018, p.96]

The Messthetics is a short set, long on detail. [Jun 2018, p.94]

Loner is the sound of her undoubted talent turned feral. It's a wonderful, rollicking beast. [Jun 2018, p.94]

Slowly Paradise are slow love songs, but slow love songs that, thanks to Chenaux's playing, suggest an impermanence at the heart of all romance, a chaos at life's core. [Jun 2018, p.93]

Admirably obtuse, Slug put the odd into prog odyssey with style. [Jun 2018, p.93]