It's never morbid, but mortality is a running theme. [Jun 2018, p.91]

Hanna's sub-Kevin Shields guitars and Chikudate's sparkling keyboards eddy across the Blondie-esque layers. [Feb 2009, p.113]

By doing exactly the same thing for all that time, and by avoiding building up a public image that would come before the music, Cale has come full circle and now sounds fresh and relevant once more. [May 2009, p.110]

More a growler than a singer, Ayisoba plugs in and lets rip from the start, his heavily rhythmic songs wasting no time on subtlety, his band driving the trance sounds home. [Jul 2017, p.91]

It's an LP of insight and empathy. [Mar 2024, p.82]

Ishmael Ensemble cleverly, psychedelically blur the lines. [Jun 2019, p.91]

With its major keys, funky breakbeats, scorching guitar solos and soothing flutes, here's one Gizzard Magnum opus not to miss in the deluge. [Dec 2022, p.92]

Uneasy listening at its ghost-in-the-machine best. [Apr 2011, p.104]

It's a more straightforward offering than their previously tangential records, though no less compelling for it. [Aug 2025, p.79]

Originally intended as a YouTube offering, The Palace Guards teeters between alt country and folk rock in a diverse and totally appealing manner. [Jun 2011, p.103]

Los Lobos' ingenuity with arrangements and atmosphere makes The Ride something special. [Jun 2004, p.102]

Gibb's voice--not to mention his lyrical outlook--is endearingly astringent. [Aug 2004, p.98]

The wait, rewarded. [Dec 2025, p.85]

A compelling blend of 21st Century world music. [May 2003, p.106]

Their shortest statement yet, offering seven songs in 34 minutes, with a stripped-down, countrified focus. [Feb 2022, p.91]

[A] hazy smoked-out amalgam of shoegaze, analogue synths and surf-pop harmonies. [Sep 2013, p.95]

A sprawling Daphni DJ set in microcosm, Butterfly is feel-good music of the purest kind. [Mar 2026, p.89]

Tyron unpacks its creator's complex character, flaws bravely to the fore. [Mar 2021, p.88]

They're also practitioners of the ancient art form of popcraft, constructing tight, clever confections then working with longtime co-producer Pat Dillett to ensure the hooks are delivered cleanly and efficiently. They remain funny, too. [Jun 2026, p.88]

Overall, the album might not surpass his masterpiece The Mysterious Production Of Eggs, but Armchair Apocrypha proves Bird's knack for the musical hat-trick. [May 2007, p.102]

They've just turned their hazy daze up to 11. [Sep 2023, p.89]

Such is its weight and accomplishment that it could easily be the work of Gavin Bryars or Arvo Part. [Dec 2014, p.92]

One of the most characterful voices of recent times--one minute suggesting folk rock paradise, the next Macbeth. [Dec 2013, p.90]

Elaborate motorik grooves, dense, post-rock complexity and intricate electronic experimentalism. [Mar 2017, p.94]

False Priest is a blur of swings and roundabuots, the sheer ambition of its crazed vision propelling it through any lull. [Oct. 2010, p. 96]

This is an odyssey both emotional and educational. [Jan 2015, p.108]

Funky as early-80s Judas Priest, the title track and Trouble's Coming will become era classics in lat-out over-amplified party music. [May 2021, p.82]

Harte's mixture of charisma, vulnerability and errant tunefulness holds everything together. [Nov 2007, p.95]