Many of these sessions trump the original album versions. [Mar 2005, p.100]

A classic Fannies record with scant regard for prescribed notions of cool. [Jun 2005, p.104]

The Silver Globe leaving no doubt that she is amongst today's most striking sonic auteurs. [Nov 2014, p.99]

The resulting work is an entrancing inner space voyage through shapeshifter drones and radiant electronic nebulae. [Feb 2017, p.96]

A serious set that delivers on his promise. [Dec 2014, p.93]

[ORO: Opus Alter] is more startling than the first [Oro: Opus Primum]. [Nov 2012, p.96]

If the initial listening experience challenges, long-term exposure unfurls Instrumental Tourist's full beauty. [Jan 2013, p.91]

Infectious, propulsive, unselfconscious, The Dodos are good enough to keep such company [as Brian Eno or David Byrne]. [Aug 2008, p.106]

Encouraged by the hazy presence of co-producer Jim James, few traces remain of his previous wood-chopping ruggedness, the singer holing up with a saucerful of secrets for Homecoming, or raising inertia to an art-form on Another Day’s time-lapse blur.

It fits easily alongside Daptone's funky analogue repertoire. [Feb 2012, p.110]

What makes it great is something else - an energy and a vibe that give the strange sensation you're there with them. [Oct 2022, p.84]

What might be Morrison's best album since 1991’s Hymns To The Silence. [Jul 2025, p.88]

[It is] a testament to Hunter's ongoing vim. [Sep 2009, p.96]

This portrait of the artist might be a gloomy, oppressive one but it’s grimly fascinating nevertheless.

Providence Canyon is one of those brilliantly timeless albums that could have been lost in someone's dusty attic for decades. [Aug 2018, p.93]

Unabashed clever buggers, their seventh is where Water From Your Eyes let their hearts rule, and it's a glorious sound. [Oct 2025, p.86]

It's moving, cathartic and achieves new levels of sophistication. [Jun 2020, p.94]

Wednesday sound in total control of the world they've build here. [Nov 2025, p.85]

The compelling, all-instrumental 39-minute studio performance remains recognisably a Field Music creation. [Aug 2015, p.94]

With production cash lavished on them, the songs lustre anew. [Dec 2025, p.84]

Bowie's best album for 20 years. [Oct 2003, p.104]

Never tumbles into dissonance. Rather, tracks like the Reichian round of Rytmy shimmer like heat haze on the horizon. [Jun 2023, p.95]

Primitives finds him channeling the celestial overlaid vocals of AnCo, Toro Y Moi's soaring gauzy electronic pop, the live, looping sample techniques of tUnE-yArDs and D.D. Dumbo, and even Steve Reich's shuddering, percussive experiments in repetition--with charming results. [Dec 2016, p.93]

Ambitious, complex, raging and poetic. a testament to the possibilities of thrash. [Dec 2018, p.103]

Heartrendingly eerie. [Jan 2018, p.91]

Save a few saggy, meh0ish collaborations mining genres, this sparky yet spiritual blend of bum-rushing hard bangers and deep soul dives further underscores his three-dimensional star quality. [Feb 2020, p.86]

Constant hitmaker or beautiful waste of time: like all great alchemists, Kurt Vile proves you can be both. [May 2022, p.87]

Another electrifying statement of unrest from the underground. [Nov 2006, p.118]