It's still raining in Ray's heart, but this is radiant stuff. [Jul 2018, p.92]

You have wit, wisdom, and yet another Adamson sonic script you wish someone would film. [Oct 2002, p.100]

The balance between Joe's resigned words and uplifting melodies remains sublime. [Aug 2003, p.100]

The bona fide release is a triumph, there's an understated elegance about Logos, which dabbles in Kraut-and math-rock and slacker-styled electronica. [Nov 2009, p.91]

Bluesman's solid soul and guitar chops fit snugly with Hi band. [Aug 2017, p.97]

As with all Stephin Merritt productions, the real stars are Stephin Merritt's wonderful songs, and the 14 love songs on Hyacinths And Thistles are as sweet and prickly as the title suggests.

Simian Angel is a continuation of those percussive ideas [in his previous albums], but with a far more abstracted, exploded view. [Sep 2019, p.91]

The big tunes--Push Upstairs, King of Snake, Born Slippy--are brasher and more powerful, and while the studio subtleties evaporate, they are replaced by thundering rock-n-roll energy and even wilder streams of lyrical consciousness.

A more focused excursion. [Oct 2017, p.98]

Completists will appreciate the three-disc focus on the One To One charity concert from August 30, 1972: one disc apiece for the afternoon and evening sets and a ‘hybrid’ selection of the best of both. But intimate ‘home’ recordings, in fact taped in hotel rooms, are more tantalising. [Dec 2025, p.67]

He's still a whiz with a tart lyrical couplet, too. [Oct 2018, p.94]

It's not all folkie freak-out - on Djinn Pulse or Cupa Cupa they decelerate to conjure hypnotic beauty. [Nov 2021, p.87]

Showcases Prewitt as an original melodic writer and arranger. [Feb 2005, p.99]

This is very much a thoughtful, interior record, with its own distinct character and an unsettling quality that gets under your skin. [Jan 2021, p.91]

Occasionally, the strings seem like an afterthought to a seemingly traditional Malian griot set-up, but the majestic title track demonstrates the power of the pairing. [Dec 2017, p.89]

No consolation, no platitudes: just stark commitment to picking up human signals through the storm. [Dec 2024, p.93]

His most honest, touching album yet. [Dec 2006, p.118]

Throughout, a recurring Satie-like piano motif floats in and out, soothing the raw emotions. [Apr 2021, p.83]

Might be one of the very best, and a neat entry point for new explorers. [Apr 2021, p.85]

Something for everyone on an album that should be a huge crossover hit. [Apr 2021, p.84]

She's found a gift for reinvention; the change suits her. [Mar 2025, p.84]

[Hank Cochran's] proven an inspirational figure for honky tonk star Johnson, who's managed to rope in half of Nashville for this revamp of Cochran's songbook. [Feb 2013, p.90]

Clinic fans will dig this. [May 2025, p.93]

Self-producing for the first time, Jurado's colour palette retains occasional ornamentation, including orchestration, Wurlitzers and a choir, but his immaculate velvet baritone is more often set in the starker relief of voice/guitar basics. [Jul 2018, p.93]

The results are largely sublime. [Aug 2017, p.91]

A richly rewarding album. [Nov 2002, p.114]

Richman sings with jaunty assurance in I Was Just A Piece Of Frozen Sky Anyway, the near-title entrance to his eighteenth solo album. [Oct 2025, p.86]

Fans of pre-grunge American alt-rock come on in. [Jul 2015, p.96]