His voice is magnificent, the songs simple and moving. .... Wonderful. [May 2025, p.84]

A ragged triumph. [Jul 2026, p.88]

Intimate, absorbing. [Sep 2020, p.94]

Instrumentally complex and inventive. [Nov 2001, p.98]

Some of the songwriting is exceptional. [Dec 2003, p.114]

What Dizzee Rascal has done with this record is find his own - profoundly satisfying - balance between grime's digital vortex of ringtones and car alarms and an older more contemplative electronic tradition. [Oct 2004, p.104]

It’s a beguiling, meandering sprawl that rewards total immersion.

The fourteenth Bad Seeds record is willfully untidy and, at times, pretty chaotic. It also rocks like crazy. [Apr 2008, p.104]

Retains an elegant spirituality. [Mar 2021, p.89]

At 70 minutes long, there's a lot to digest but it's worth persevering with as repeated listens gradually unveil a musical universe unlike any other. [Sep 2015, p.89]

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

What makes the album itself addictive is Isbell's fusing of gothic Memphis blues and Nashville tenderness. [Nov 2013, p.90]

It routinely achieves a perfect fusion of forma nd content. [Dec 2021, p.87]

This time Fussell has a full band to flesh out his vision, providing front porch grooves that carry the same kind of woody resonance as those of The band. [Jul 2019, p.91]

There's a newfound earnestness and openness to caroline's songcraft. [Jul 2025, p.78]

Creatively, Reward is on point. [Jun 2019, p.89]

Display[s] a lurid intelligence that seeks to explore an alternate American history. [Oct 2004, p.102]

It's on hypnotic original compositions such as Excess Success or reworked pieces like La Jetee that Parker's true genius shines through, an ability to create entire new sonic worlds from the tiniest of elements. [Mar 2022, p.88]

The Beach Boys vault, though, is full of Dennis tracks, and Feel Flows makes a great showcase for that Wilson's unlikely gifts, and the inconsistent strategies that bedevilled the band. [Sep 2021, p.90]

These evocative originals, inspired by road trips, inevitably reconnect ti her Memphis roots. [Mar 2014, p.96]

The results have the in-the-room intimacy of Lenker's best work. [Apr 2024, p.91]

Lasting only an economic 33 minutes; on this form, she could pull off a double album. [Apr 2021, p.84]

Dry Cleaning have lost none of their distinctive edge, their idiosyncratic set-up proving to be endlessly elastic, as big as they want, as small as they need, 
to capture the chaos of the world. No hidden messages here: Secret Love is a wonderful record.

It is a deeply odd but consistently compelling work. [Nov 2014, p.98]

What Los Lobos's thirteenth long-player lacks in surprise it makes up for in groove and mood. [Oct 2006, p.103]

Ultimately, it's Woods and Elucid who provide the intense, erudite, funny through-line. [Nov 2023, p.93]

Hey Panda may seem whimsical at first, but its depth is all the grander for the work it takes to mine its many gems. [May 2024, p.84]

Her debut LP eschews 4/4 rhythms to create a loose-limbed, free-ranging treat. [Feb 2020, p.91]