While much here errs toward vanilla and cheese, delectably idiosyncratic morsels are also on the menu. [Dec 2018, p.100]

There's still a lot of soul-searching at mournful tempos, but reconnecting to his roots has made for a fine set of songs. [Feb 2019, p.93]

Groovy and moving, in all the right directions. [Oct 2019, p.88]

Reggae/dub comes no more vital, nor far-sighted, in 2019. [Jan 2020, p.85]

It may make for a rollercoaster musical ride, but it's utterly thrilling. [Mar 2024, p.88]

An album that's a steady pleasure from start to finish. [Jul 2012, p.82]

Nepenthe finds Julianna Barwick's already established wash of angel tones and free-floating radiance newly influenced by the breathtaking, often alien wonders of her host country. [Sep 2013, p.90]

Things can get twee--but this feels like a tiny church in that forest, sacred and touching. [Jul 2015, p.92]

An album of mischievous melody, fairground keyboards, cut'n'paste aural collage and an undeniable love of pop all but buried in junk shop Dadaist clatter. [Oct 2007, p.106]

Arguably the band's most magical record to date. [Nov 2003, p.123]

It's surely their most eclectic. [Oct 2009, p.103]

It benefits substantially from the synergy that the potent presence of Charlie Musselwhite helps to create. [Feb 2013, p.90]

It's Metheny, ever the mercurial magician, who's driving the band; his eloquent guitar etching a kaleidoscope f sonic hues. [Mar 2014, p.92]

These songs conjure shifting states-of-consciousness. [Aug 2017, p.97]

There's a distinctly Mitteleuropa aura to her enigmatic Nico-like vocals. [Nov 2016, p.96]

It's clever, funny, confrontational and touching. [May 2017, p.94]

Chillwave premier goes in search of the funk. [March 2011, p. 95]

He sings with committed restraint and plays outspoken guitar. [Feb 2005, p.95]

The awkward early passages of Pyramid/When The Poor Can reach The Moon would surely struggle to gain airplay in any decade, including this one, yet it ultimately rises to the kind of triumphant chorus at which Phillipps excels. [Nov 2015, p.87]

For a record about captive states - isolation, anxiety, romantic hope - Things Take Time, Take Time knows how to move. [Dec 2021, p.85]

A spectacular lift-off, but Owens' career apogee sounds a long way off yet. [May 2017, p.91]

Breathlessly brilliant stuff. [Sep 2022, p.93]

The foggy nights of soul chronicled here lend Chastity Belt's bruised indie pop a weight that suits it. [Jun 2017, p.89]

In The Future showcases a group who knows exactly what they're doing. [Feb 2008, p.101]

With unerring melodies, Eleanor F hits the sweet spot time after time. [Jul 2013, p.84]

It's exhilarating stuff, the kind of record that sets new parameters as to what is possible from a punk rock'n'roll band in the 21st century. [Oct 2004, p.106]

Their first full-lengther is a seemless, beat-driven shadowplay, wherein luminescent passages of prog-pop uplift are stalked by eerie, intense atmosphere. [Sep 2008, p.106]

Head Down sounds highly-charged and fresh. [Dec 2012, p.84]