Painfully literal in its detailing of grief. [Jul 2017, p.91]

Intimate, timeless music. [Jul 2017, p.92]

An epic beast. playing to their strengths while also sprawling in new directions. [Jul 2019, p.89]

Luminous Night reflects the yin-yang duality of a player whose axework has feulled Both Comets On Fire's freakout euphoria and the post-apocaltptic spok of Current 93. [Oct 2009, p.101]

Ultimately, such details of momentum and mood are testimony to how Them Crooked Vultures flouts the supergroup manual. It doesn't sound like the work of rich men on holiday, but rather three serious individuals looking to prove themselves over again. [Jan 2010, p. 88]

Cameron Neal earths this plangent guitar-rock with his anxious cris de coeur and admits to a teen Smiths crush, which helps explain the metropolitan jitters and Marr-like cadences that feed into Fear In Bliss. [May 2014, p.91]

Booker responds with young and evergreen playing, a typically euphonious mixture of economy, precision, warmth, color and melody on tight groovin' instrumentals. [Jun 2011, p.101]

Cathartic and beyond satisfying. [Jun 2013, p.102]

The results here are extraordinary. [Jul 2015, p.88]

Beautifully poised. [Dec 2021, p.92]

It's also the group's most exciting, most engaged, most breathtaking album this century. [Mar 2023, p.85]

The French singer renders smoky blues. [Oct 2016, p.100]

[For Bteer, Or Worse] maintains the same innate love of his subject and feeling of bonhomie. [Nov 2016, p.94]

Her characters will wander through your imagination for days after the record's stopped spinning. [Nov 2016, p.86]

Lavishness their deep influences merits. ... Endless Indian summer. [Feb 2020, p.107]

Happy Hollow swings with the nutty abandon of Madness, sharpened with the literate punk frenzy of Fugazi. [Oct 2006, p.104]

At times it's spellbinding. [Dec 2006, p.118]

[Teenage Kicks is] arguablt not even the best song on this compilation. Wednesday Week's gorgeous melody, You've Got My Number's killer riff and the haunting, fragile Julie Ocean are superb, while we can even forgive them for their Human League-baiting My Perfect Cousin. [Mar 2020, p.101]

This is a fine balancing of distance and engagement that put the shier back into chill out. [Mar 2012, p.103]

Chelsea Light Moving's sound and fury certainly thrill. [Apr 2013, p.88]

This is bruised, bruising music, intellectually satisfying, animalistic. [Jul 2017, p.91]

Produced by Tortoise's John McEntire on this, their second outing, BO channel such solitary American composers as Harry Partch and Charles Ives, rattling from distorted second line jazz to mournful Moondog horn stomps and sweet chamber melancholy, creating a claustrophobic city suite that taps into a whole other area of American vernacular music. [Dec 2009, p. 96]

The melancholy Tumbleweed sound become the sound of '70s country rock. [Jul 2017, p.100]

This covers set is a fine entry-point. [Jul 2009, p.97]

Ben Chasny's annual solo folk extravaganza. [March 2011, p. 95]

The album is packed with sunny tunes which carry a '60s and '70s feel, but Prewitt never coasts. [July 2002, p.104]

Sound[s] like a typical Elephant 6-related band--absolutely fantastic. [May 2003, p.108]

Somewhere between Faultline's bedroom-boffin invention and Stephen Merritt's pensive elegance. [May 2003, p.99]