Their follow-up sees them crank everything up to the next level. [Sep 2018, p.94]

It's not gloom and vitriol, it's gorgeous. [Nov 2020, p.83]

Wheel reinvention, it ain't, but for insidious, emotionally overblown ear candy, Let Go hits a real sweet spot. [Nov 2002, p.113]

Melusine retains the intellectual curiosity of Salvant's jittery, questing catalogue. [May 2023, p.86]

It's another good one. [Jul 2006, p.100]

Placing a rich overlay of guitars, piano, banjo and synths over bleak and difficult circumstances, Cullum restores a gentle magic to the world. Heads, he wins. [May 2026, p.86]

Three singular voices, one might murmuration. [May 2026, p.90]

Bad As me is alive with some of his greatest yet. [Nov 2011, p.90]

Fusing techno with campanology is a bold aim on paper; in practice it's a revelation. [Feb 2013, p.91]

The Last Shadow Puppets is an extraordinary side project that's even more enticing than the mothership. [May 2008, p.100]

[A] gem-filled recording. [Aug 2008, p.111]

Maybe if they'd dated this collection back to 1979 and the Christian albums, they'd have a more interesting storyline, but we definitely wouldn't have had a better collection of songs. [Nov 2008, p.122]

The sun's gone out and here is the soundtrack to our long, dark financial winter. [Mar 2009, p.114]

Their early temper now lurks beneath, as chiming post-punk atmos channels affecting, emotional jabs. [Jun 2016, p.97]

The identity-crisis themed Camp trumps through whip-smart intelligence, comic brio and bristling malign intent. [Jan 2012, p.90]

[A] sturdy, panoramic critique of modern rap mores. [Aug 2014, p.92]

Dinosaur Jr, Screaming Trees and GBV overlap on this Venn diagram of melodic powerpop. [Jul 2014, p.96]

Easily Band Of horses' best LP in over a decade. [Feb 2022, p.86]

An inspired, unique dramstist, at the peak of his powers. [Feb 2026, p.81]

As distinctively fabulous as anything they have released in nearly 40 years. [Jan 2021, p.85]

[Still Life] finally moves her on from being just "one to watch" to the woman of the moment. [Apr 2022, p.81]

The band use trad tools... and trad tricks... But there's nothing trad about their cock-your-head tunings and lose-your-balance rhythms. [Dec 2005, p.100]

You're left with a record that few will better this year. [Oct 2011, p.101]

At its best, Factory Floor powerfully blurs the lines between human and machine and back again, and is very hard to argue with. [Oct 2013, p.91]

O Monolith is no less bold of palette - opener Swing (in A Dream) embraces taut post-punk chug, jazz trumpet and enveloping synths - but always follows a lucid, compelling logic. [Jul 2023, p.86]

A delectable-sounding record slathered in guitar magic: what’s not to like?

It's exquisite ghostly piano and hypnotic loops transport you to a gauzy, fantastical netherworld. [Jan 2018, p.96]

What's most remarkable is just how like the old Dolls this new record sounds. [Aug 2006, p.92]