This full of 303 squelches and flat, ever wonderful 808 thups-thups, sinister vocals and robot rumba rhythms. [Aug 2012, p.102]

Imarhan's 11 songs come wrapped in a soundscape; a surround-sound version would have the guitars and vocal central, but dust devils and translucent scorpions in the corners of your room, a sweet tea bubbling away and, after dark, the shuffling of a hyena behind the settee. the music expands to fill the space. [Mar 2022, p.82]

It hold together, though--a quiet coalition, but one that is wholly satisfying. [Dec 2017, p.89]

It proves to be an oblique, sometimes outre, but always artistic reinvestigation rather than an indulgent lap of honour around erstwhile glories. [Feb 2016, p.94]

Mollestad Thomassen's adoption of free-flowing soloing brings a sound less claustrophobic than before. Extraordinarily, in doing so, no power is lost. [Feb 2019, p.87]

A brilliant piece of art. [Mar 2017, p.91]

When the songs are this well-crafted, we'll be back again. [May 2017, p.88]

It's the vast common ground that they delicately negotiate and improvise in which makes Totality so enthralling, so satisfying. [Jun 2025, p.89]

It cannot have been a paucity of good songs, strong playing or contemporary production values that was the problem, the 13 hitherto unheard tracks on Wings of Love stunningly illustrate. [May 2013, p.102]

If aging has robbed the 86-year-old of anything, it's not audible here. [Aug 2019, p.96]

God times are promised--and delivered. [Feb 2012, p.99]

The Menace is a far more varied and ambitious LP than the first and, one suspects, than the Elastica album we'd have got four or three years ago. A very pleasant surprise.

This album feels personal, contemplative, yet thanks to Harris's blurred vocals, the meaning is never in focus, like notes sent back from the edge of a waking dream. [Oct 2021, p.96]

The glitchy future R&B of Playing House is evidence of Active Child's depth, but it's the emotional blood-letting of tracks like dark hymnal Way Too Fast which gives this record a gravitas most popular music never achieves. [Jan 2012, p.92]

Born In The Echoes finds them capturing the most elusive sound of all. They sound, at last, like themselves again. [Aug 2015, p.90]

These are songs to admire rather than lose oneself in. [Jan 2004, p.116]

Highly seductive and pulsates with youthful energy. [Mar 2023, p.88]

An album like this could be relevant at any time, really, but it takes the past couple of years to make it quite this livid. [Oct 2018, p.91]

Relic sounds like an album that could have been recorded in the last 50 years. [Aug 2014, p.89]

This record shows an artist stretching out to fill space, refusing to settle for anything small. [Oct 2024, p.85]

Finds an uncommonly energised Oldham ranging across his capacious back catalogue, his palpable enthusiasm manifesting in unlikely between-song whoops of joy. [Dec 2005, p.116]

When it comes to making smart, mischievous electronic merry, no one can touch him. [May 2006, p.105]

Some of his best songs yet. [Mar 2020, p.88]

Under~Between moves with a whisper from avant-garde chamber works to beguiling voice exercises and delicate percussion pieces, as if Hunt were creating ambient chamber scores for utopian landscapes, where birds chatter like computers, and passing cars sound like small sad jazz trios. [Apr 2021, p.85]

Whip-smart and wonderful. [Jul 2022, p.89]

In 2019 terms, then, it's a Village Green Preservation Society for people whose village is on the banks of the (alarmingly diminished) Niger River. [Feb 2019, p.91]

An evocative, synesthesic aura halos the second LP from the transatlantic trio. [Jan 2019, p.93]

It's a beautiful soundscape to get thoroughly lost in. [Apr 2025, p.87]