Even when she blinds her audience wit science, though, Bjork's vision remains remarkable. [Oct 2011, p.97]

An album of alluring dignity and depth. [Jul 2014, p.93]

Distorted vocals, metallic clunks and disquieting sonic strangeness in spades. [Nov 2014, p.102]

Despite the extended sabbatical, Leftfield’s muscular, invigorating presence remains undimmed.

Rolo Tomassi are best when varying the textures. [Aug 2015, p.96]

It gives way to creeping synths, much post-rock elation and an epic finale, sung in French with nape-raising efficacy. [Apr 2016, p.96]

Singer-songwriter Ala.ni's debut story of doomed love is a hazy mix of innocence and experience. ... A pearl. [Jul 2016, p.97]

Intoxicated Women makes you fall in love with Gainsbourg and his women all over again. [Dec 2016, p.95]

Strong synth tunes and beats, bristling with vocal angst. [Oct 2017, p.98]

This is a sweet entry point. [Oct 2019, p.92]

[Singer Hazel Wilde's] words are clear, emphatic and beautifully sung, like a post-rock seer gazing over the landscape. Her bandmates also play their socks off. [Mar 2020, p.91]

Eccentric yet accessible avant-electronica. [May 2021, p.88]

Critically, Dark Matters evokes, rather than merely simulates, the band's hallmark quirk and strangeness, lending integrity to the ongoing endeavour. [Oct 2021, p.97]

The sparseness lends a quiet power and intimacy to proceedings. [May 2022, p.100]

Without the accompanying visuals, Ugly Season makes most sense when there's a vocal to centre it. [Aug 2022, p.86]

[Jess Shoman's] roller-coaster voice, sometimes Kermit-like, sometimes as out there as Mary Margaret O'Hara, is an acquired taste. yet she's successfully sensual on Be. ... Everything comes together on Sharp Wheel. [Dec 2022, p.82]

[Evil Spirits] was a curiously muted affair. ... Darkadelic does much to address that imbalance with the Cap back to showboating magnificently on Bad Weather Girl and Girl I'll Stop At Nothing and adding vibrant, shimmering psych textures throughout. [Jun 2023, p.84]

Garden Party is a golden-hour dream of a record, balmy keyboards and cicada-like percussion setting a perfect scene for the easy, receptive conversations between the guitars of Johnson and Barry Walker. [Jun 2023, p.87]

Blackwell remains an inveterate magpie of all things psychedelic. [Sep 2023, p.84]

They're still sparkling. [May 2024, p.91]

Mortality looms large as he recounts a car accident on The Last Ten Seconds Of Life, the bluegrass-flavoured Not A Lot Of Sand Left In The Glass and again for prairie trail eulogy I Want To Be The Man (My Dog Thinks I Am). [Nov 2024, p.84]

What's certainly clear is that this spin-the-bottle project has legs, its relaxed meeting of minds a mellifluous triple-threat. [May 2025, p.84]

These 14 songs mostly charm and world-build in under three minutes. [Sep 2025, p.79]

Great to hear these session giants unchained. [Oct 2025, p.83]

The absolute highlight is Dion's magnificently assured live performance of his own King Of The New York Streets. .... New York Minute stands out, with its overt nods to Dion's late-1950s doo wop sides. [Jan 2026, p.89]

An inspired, unique dramstist, at the peak of his powers. [Feb 2026, p.81]

Mosquito is enticing. [Apr 2026, p.90]

Positivity lights up the British Nigerian's debut. [Apr 2026, p.94]