The glitchy electronics hard shield his soulful voice, but on tracks like Corner the digital pulse yields more human warmth. [Sep 2015, p.95]

At once spooky and playful, romantic and angry. [Sep 2015, p.89]

Presence is the best of the three [remasters].... The deluxe edition's bonus track, a soft, piano-led instrumental titled Pod, reiterates how dark and gnarly the rest is. [Sep 2015, p.98]

In Through The Out Door is an honest album that makes Zeppelin sound (almost) human. But it hasn't aged well. [Sep 2015, p.98]

The best of the original bunch is still the frantic rockabilly charge Wearing And Tearing from the Polar Studio sessions.... What gives this new Coda its edge are versions of Four Sticks and Friends recorded in 1972 by Page and Plant in Bombay with local musicians who'd never heard a Led Zeppelin song before. [Sep 2015, p.98]

Evocative songs of Cornish coastal contemplation. [Sep 2015, p.95]

What Turner lacks in lyrical bravura he makes up with arena sized melodic hooks. [Sep 2015, p.95]

This is an album that seduces as readily as it challenges. [Sep 2015, p.88]

Abyss is a darkly compelling tour de force. [Sep 2015, p.94]

Impressive--and then some. [Sep 2015, p.86]

Bowness's delivery on the more subdued material tends to revisit similar melodic cadences, but when the musicians inject more energy, as on The Great Electric Teenage Dream and the gorgeous Sing To Me, the music is transported to a different level. [Sep 2015, p.90]

Surely the sweetly sour bubblegum album of 2015. [Sep 2015, p.86]

Furthering their Sonic Youth/Television post-punk quests. [Sep 2015, p.95]

An epic, cataclysmic set playing host to moments of magnificent Strum-und-Drang. [Sep 2015, p.92]

At 70 minutes long, there's a lot to digest but it's worth persevering with as repeated listens gradually unveil a musical universe unlike any other. [Sep 2015, p.89]

The overall sense is of a spirited and inventive band truly coming into their own. [Sep 2015, p.87]

The hits may well keep rolling in for Years & Years, but next time a bit more adventure wouldn't go amiss. [Sep 2015, p.87]

A leaner, more radio-friendly effort. [Sep 2015, p.86]

The devil's in the details, be it the drum machine patterns that propel Church or the lush pedal-augmented textures of Medieval, while the instrumentals that open and close the album aren't simple throwaways but highlights. [Sep 2015, p.86]

Spry and spontaneous sounding. [Sep 2015, p.87]

The surface of Another One is pure pleasure; underneath, it's not quite so easy. [Sep 2015, p.90]

Blood proves to be another mixed bag. [Aug 2015, p.92]

Star Wars confirms that Wilco now fully own a unique American noise wherein nothing is wholly traditional or wholly experimental. But if the band’s own sense of self is stalwart, the characters they detail are consistently unmoored.

If it's not immediately obvious what such vaunted DJs see in Souleyman, Legowelt's remix of the title track spells out the floor-filling qualities. [Aug 2015, p.91]

Crushing riffs and ancestral memories of hardcore. [Aug 2015, p.98]

Classic Quadrophenia, recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and TV-friendly tenor Alfie Boa, works, but only sometimes. [Aug 2015, p.91]

What's really mind-blowing is the audio quality of that initial 60-year-old performance (and indeed, the box set in general), which is so lucid that it sounds as if Miles is in the room playing right next to you. [Aug 2015, p.106]

Shirley Inspired and Unheard Songs both bear rich testament to the fact that posterity is barely getting started in these two. [Jul 2015, p.88]