What Yes, I'm A Witch proves, above all else, is that the world is at last catching up with Ono. [Mar 2007, p.92]

Hey Rose is a bright, infectious opener, but elsewhere Little offers darker and more reflective material. [Mar 2020, p.92]

Greta Morgan's expressive range goes creamy and detached on hazy pop-psych. [Dec 2014, p.102]

Hersh still transmits a visionary quality through her songs, her writing only adding to the sense of compulsion. [Dec 2013, p.88]

A singer-songwriter back at the peak of her powers. [Apr 2020, p.94]

This just might be their best work in 25 years. [Jan 2013, p.92]

Siamese Dream is full of bombastic romanticism and undiminished power. [Feb 2012, p.108]

There's still some beautifully glacial music....but now, occasionally, the Arctic exploration party becomes simply a party. [Aug 2008, p.103]

Magnificently unsanitised ramalams in the shape of Please Come In and BFIOU. [Aug 2021, p.88]

Akpro's narcotic melodies grip tight as dubby bass lines (played by Akpro) probe alongside loping beats, flickering embers of guitar, saxophone haze and the singer's sultry delivery. [Jul 2025, p.80]

This compilation is a reminder of the stillness and quiet power at the heart of his frank, softly sung confessional, of Smith's talent as an arranger and multi-instrumentalist, and of his able, Paul Simon-like finger-picking style. [Dec 2010, p.114]

Ane Brun has never before sounded so alive.[March 2012, p.98]

An album that's warm, honest, awash with tuneage, never corny, and really rather marvellous. [Jun 2018, p.95]

Pissed Jeans' fist-pumping tunes, thrilling noise and acidic wit ensure their permanent bummer is always a good time. [Apr 2024, p.87]

Pig Lib is full of as many little mysteries as it is revelations. [Apr 2003, p.91]

An album as confrontational and consistent as Public Enemy's Apocalypse '91. [Feb 2002, p.93]

This is a more expansive, rococo production than Callahan's Dream River. [May 2014, p.91]

Big, beautiful new record. [Aug 2018, p.94]

The title track, inspired by the band's current motto, is a powerful evocation of The Strokes going electro, while Path Of Most Resistance taps a kooky, Devo-ish guitar hook. If Your gym playlist needs refreshing, look no further. [Sep 2025, p.82]

The music's suboptimal sound quality is only a minor drawback to a sonic experience whose raw intensity is both disquieting and uplifting. [Nov 2021, p.102]

This is terrific, 90-minutes of ice-quaking noise, jet-engine feedback, histrionic metal screaming, Gothic doom and ambient euphoria that feels simultaneously ecstatic and terrifying. [Aug 2015, p.95]

A rich, compelling album. [Jun 2003, p.93]

One for the fans delighted he's still here and fascinated by how such classic songs started out. [Jan 2022, p.82]

The 14 tracks here represent just a fraction of what he produced in his prime, so beware that it may be habit forming. [Oct 2011, p.110]

WE is Arcade fire's best album since 2010's The Suburbs. By circling back, they've once again moving forward. [Jun 2022, p.86]

Owusu is a charismatic anchor throughout this boundary-pushing debut. [Apr 2021, p.85]

These mostly instrumental voyages speak loudly of no known universe. [Mar 2017, p.98]

A major work. [Jan 2013, p.92]