Another mesmerising, profound, excellent record. [Jul 2023 p.86]

It's Holmes who provides the spark throughout Cypress Grove. [Feb 2020, p.94]

A short, dynamic return to form is similarly earwrenching. [Nov 2012, p.95]

Despite the lulls, the resistance to ending songs, Reflektor lets Arcade Fire shed expectations along with a skin, an act of rejuvenation few at their level manage with conviction. [Nov 2013, p.82]

It's easily Body Count's finest hour. [Jan 2025, p.82]

The songs on Enter Now Brightness, however, suggest no dulling of Reid’s songwriting senses, just an acute desire to keep moving closer to seeing the light. [Mar 2025, p.85]

This act of restoration convinces as a good Tony Joe White album that could have been plucked from anywhere during his career. [Jun 2021, p.80]

It's a generous and potent fix of Pollard eccentricity. [Apr 2018, p.94]

Buoyed with emotional heft and supernova guitar riffs, their second album is wired around a maturing songcraft and the studio savvy of grunge producer Butch Vig. [Aug 2008, p.112]

Against this highly contemporary but ever-wacko sonic backdrop, the Upsetter orates magisterially. [Sep 2008, p.98]

Joan Wasser's second covers set finds romance in Prince's lust-blind Kiss and innocence in the Strokes' Under Control. [Jul 2020, p.88]

A lugubrious but fresh, genre-bending take on modern club music. [Nov 2021, p.91]

A New York studio may not be the ideal place to summon up the atmosphere of the Wild West, but these desperadoes on Barry Adamson's lable make a pretty good fist of it. [Dec 2009, p.101]

The delivery is relentless. [Jun 2014, p.86]

[A] fine and discerningly lean album. [Sep 2016, p.93]

Their anarchic spirit is captured over the original LP's 11 tracks. [Sep 2015, p.92]

In this filmic offering, all commentators observe our crumbling landscape. .... On the dark, drum-lead chant Baby Roe, DiFranco sounds like Billie Holiday as she upbraids the overturners of Roe v Wade (“We’re so wigged out/Yeah, we’re so devout”), before pleading for “the path of least suffering”. [Aug 2024, p.89]

Though no Pet Sound, this album, at its best so wistfully reliving out golden yesterdays, ranks up there with Today! [Aug 2012, p.92]

A colourful, catchy and quietly impassioned record. [Oct 2016, p.90]

[A] gloriously sensual record. [Sep 2015, p.93]

The new approach... lets them explore their lyrical side. [Sep 2005, p.94]

Confident and expansive, yet intimate and subtle, Bonny Doon are in a good place here. [Aug 2023, p.81]

A set glorying in its sensual exoticism. [Jan 2007, p.102]

This pared-back sonic trip sings with freshness and immediacy. [Sep 2023, p.89]

Visitations may just be their finest half-hour. [Dec 2006, p.108]

Stylistic touchstones veer toward the William Blake's 7 weird of Julia Holter, Henry Cow and Julie Tippetts' prog-jazz outlier Sunset Glow. Incomprehensible/irresistible. [Sep 2023, p.87]

The strangely beautiful bounty of Mogadisco reveals more telling detail with each listen. [Feb 2020, p.103]

The combination of Schultz's desperately appealing voice and Fraites's lonesome but poppy piano still hits hard. They're still doing things right. [Mar 2025, p.88]