It's all pretty essential stuff.

This is tough, honest, uncompromising beauty and the next great voice in music. [Apr 2005, p.86]

Delivers a top-grade high. [Jun 2006, p.104]

Forgoing cynicism, she looks out on the world with unbound curiosity and zeal, every coruscant melody and glowing harmony another discovery. [Nov 2024, p.93]

Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You is both an album of admirable ambition and a mantra worth repeating until its mysteries are revealed. [Mar 2022, p.81]

KoKoKo! wield improvised technology with the deftness of touch to create the kind of pop music you'd expect to hear in the best post-punk disco in heaven. [Sep 2019, p.94]

[An] Extraordinary album. [Apr 2022, p.92]

Unearthly. [Jul 2024, p.91]

Overall, it's a gently entrancing and quietly elegant album. [Sep 2025, p.80]

Arular's irresistible blend of crafty refugee chic and subversive digital skipping rhymes will do very nicely for the moment. [Jun 2005, p.108]

If you need reminding, it demonstrates what a good singer she is. [Dec 2018, p.90]

This panoramic attempt to make sense of life's one certainty beyond taxes flutters far above the digital static of 2008's breakthrough Los Angeles into twisted, ethereal jazz territory. [Nov 2014, p.89]

Its sure-footed '60 psych, garage and country is potently rendered. [Aug 2022, p.89]

Beautiful and surprising album. [Jul 2019, p.88]

Believe it or not, there's room in the desert for yet another serious contender. [May 2019, p.91]

Multifaceted and consistently brilliant. [Jun 2023, p.84]

Its essence remains constant, as post-punk, soul and Southern rock collide in an ever-delectable succession of hyper-melodic bangers – sunny online-trolling satire Flash Bare Ass, and faith-keeping marital romancer Light On surely count amongst JP’s career-best. [Jan 2025, p.82]

Isolation doesn't get more splendid than this. [June 2008, p.100]

Heavy though it is, the songwriting remains remarkably light and agile. [Mar 2024, p.88]

There's a sense in almost all the songs of open roads, either beckoning or closed in, or both. [May 2015, p.99]

Brilliantly executed with Shirley Bassey-like surety in an arresting, always distinctive, lyrical voice. [Mar 2024, p.89]

It's a record of fierce seriousness, a demand for engagement as inescapable and immediate as somebody shaking you by the shoulders. [Aug 2023, p.82]

A string quartet, reverby backing vocals, and Kraut keys crowd the songs like weeds strangling a once hearty plant. [May 2001, p.104]

Piercing, heated, Fever Ray is taking no prisoners. [Mar 2018, p.97]

Everything Harmony us certainly a darker chapter in the Twigs' story, but their songwriting has become more nuanced. [Jun 2023, p.90]

Lahai is less introspective and far from lonely, its persuasive positivity carried by a contained riot of euphoric synths, swelling violins, Chic guitars and skittering percussion. [Dec 2023, p.90]

What did we get for our 20-year wait? Something substantive, something deeply considered. [Jan 2024, p.87]

This is not a record that wants or needs to be solved, but the clues and traces it leaves behind are so compelling it's difficult to let it alone. [Oct 2015, p.86]