A typically finely crafted slice of emotionally raw storytelling with an absolute peach if a guitar solo. [Aug 2015, p.93]

A record with a beauty and sense of emotional elevation to match the place where it was made. [Aug 2015, p.92]

He [Luke Younger] has blended ghost-echoes of dub, techno, and house to oddly sounding effect. [Aug 2015, p.95]

Not much subtlety, but if some of the lyrics and playing are sometimes tough and ready, righteous passion overrides it to carry the day. [Aug 2015, p.88]

Inji is great fun, offering new surprises with every listen. [Aug 2015, p.92]

Heavy on atmosphere, but candid and brave also. [Aug 2015, p.98]

This "new" RP Boo set feels like a deeper, warmer work. [Aug 2015, p.98]

With a few exceptions, she just sounds bored. [Aug 2015, p.93]

The mind-boggling multiplicity if voices on Key Markets, the sneaking sophistication, and the beyond-colourful language, serve up a currently unrivaled feast for the mind. [Aug 2015, p.89]

Driven, hooky, moving. Better than Prozac or a sunny day. [Aug 2015, p.88]

These sings might inhabit unsteady mental states, but each component could have been places with tweezers and a jeweller's loupe. [Aug 2015, p.86]

An exercise in soulful, somnambulant alt-R&B with a distinctively British sound. [Jul 2015, p.91]

A cathartic soundscaping of the rugged Northern California landscape. [Jul 2015, p.91]

See them A Come and band original Open Goal here could both date from that time [1980].... The rest of Subculture spreads the net wider though. [Jul 2015, p.93]

[A] terrific LP, which depicts a sickness at the heart of America with a confident swagger and righteous anger.

Plangent retro charm. [Jul 2015, p.89]

[An] unexpected and trenchantly singular statement. [Jul 2015, p.86]

The lovely Jaakko Eino Kalevi, the most coherent album so far from the former Helsinki tram driver, is a gem.

Winsome, pastoral electronic vignettes that loop and swoop. [Jul 2015, p.91]

Things can get twee--but this feels like a tiny church in that forest, sacred and touching. [Jul 2015, p.92]

Coming Home has a timeless quality. [Jul 2015, p.87]

There's enough bittersweet emotion to ensure his own personality seeps through. [Jul 2015, p.96]

This highly accomplished album also finds her writing and singing in other registers. [Jul 2015, p.90]

An over proliferation of fluffy beats and soaring strings may have you hankering for something tougher. [Jul 2015, p.91]

Pleasing, but lacking his early melodic strength. [Jul 2015, p.96]

Get To Heaven feels both like a band at the peak of their powers and self-consciously dialing everything up to 11 before things go up in flames. [Jul 2015, p.90]

Ultimately proves hard to get a handle on. [Jul 2015, p.96]

Its icky love songs sadly have no beating heart, and very little soul. [Jul 2015, p.93]