This is some coming-of-age classic. [Sep 2004, p.96]

Segall's charms are as abundant as his releases: may his well never run dry. [Jun 2012, p.84]

A little too much. [Apr 2005, p.90]

A near two-hour spiritual masterclass, recorded live at London's Church of Sound, that simultaneously enhances, enriches and expands. [Dec 2018, p.89]

Proof that inventive, envelope-pushing indie rock hasn't disappeared off the map just yet. [Apr 2021, p.83]

Throughout, Joan still sounds as bewitched, bothered and bewildered by love, a timeless sensation that transcends digital intervention. [Mar 2018, p.94]

RRD's tempo is beatific, fingerpicked guitar and violin cresting sweetly, though some fervent moments provide real highlights. [Mar 2018, p.90]

Jet Plane And Oxbow pulls together crisp, motorik grooves, dirty great guitar riffs and arms-aloft choruses. [Feb 2016, p.90]

There might only be five songs here, but each one has a similar transformative effect. [Jul 2022, p.88]

This remains far from forbidding music, with an orchestrated heft that's as close to Ennio Morricone as it is Glenn Branca. [Jun 2021, p.83]

Not as humorous as 2Bears nor as wistful as Hot Chip, here Goddard further explores the potency of the danncefloor combined with intelligent, leftfield pop. [May 2017, p.92]

Some of the most minimal yet complex, heavy but refined music going. [Jun 2025, p.86]

Meditative, twitchy, cerebral, the Heliocentrics are at once timeless and of the now. [Jul 2017, p.93]

Under The Midnight Sun invests those primal energies with the wisdom of age, creating something fresh and powerful. [Nov 2022, p.85]

Fabulous. [Jun 2009, p.98]

On Bella, Thompson is once again in the crossfire of a stop-start relationship. [March 2011, p. 109]

Policy is a dazzling execution of one man's crazed vision. [May 2015, p.91]

[Luke Haines] has never been backed like this before. ... It's as if The WreckingCrew wound up on a Skip Spence album. [Nov 2022, p.91]

His exhilarating meld of hip hop beats and mesmeric grooves proves that should he reform his old band, it's not because he needs to. [Nov 2009, p.95]

An album of swooning, soft-lens electronica that is firmly of the Eno/Aphex Twin lineage. [Jul 2018, p.95]

Brings to mind the MC5, the Stones and Otis Redding. [Jun 2003, p.113]

His craftsman's melodiousness and honest voice add balm and balance. [Jun 2012, p.84]

Dense and dark as always, but with new light seeping through the undergrowth, Unseen is The Handsome Family's masterpiece. [Sep 2016, p.95]

One of the most cerebral-yet-groovy hip hop albums you'll hear. [Apr 2002, p.104]

An often challenging, always thrilling triumph that rewards deep listening and re-listening. [May 2023, p.92]

Lemmy-recalling rocker The End finds chief pilot Dave Brock poignantly recalling years of adventure as past Hawkwind sonic signatures collide, while the mordantly comic The Beginning looks in electronic/acoustic fashion to a post-human existence of uploaded consciousness. [Jun 2023, p.85]

Apart from the more lightweight yarning of In Electric Blue, each track on this album takes you further into her brave new world. [Jun 2023, p.94]

It'll surely rank as British alt-rock's finest debut of 2012--genuinely fit for a place in Dougall Sr's pantheon. [Oct 2012, p.88]