The Electric Word now reveals the Reverend brothers Gean and Tommie West's vocal gospel-soul power utterly undiminished by time. [Apr 2013, p.96]

If Sideways To New Italy is a reckoning, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever's balance sheet is entirely in the black. [Jul 2020, p.79]

A joy to behold. [Sep 2021, p.81]

Italian-blooded debutante rocks passionately. [March 2011, p. 96]

[The Nocturne Diaries] is beautiful. [May 2014, p.91]

Sol Invictus scratches a creative itch created by the band's Second Coming Tour, and reasserts that they will not be second-guessed or pigeonholed. [Jun 2015, p.94]

Effortlessly good fun. [Jan 2023, p.99]

This restless, marauding and cacophonous set captures these most musicianly of b-boys firmly on top of their game. [Jun 2013, p.92]

Hyper-tense, but worth it. [Aug 2018, p.91]

A covers album supreme. [Dec 2004, p.114]

Packed with airhorns, grunts and slashing keys, its tempo shifts at will, a reminder of a singular talent. [Oct 2016, p.99]

[These albums] are as much of a pendulum swing from Is A Woman as Is A Woman was from Nixon. [combined review of both discs; Feb 2004, p.90]

If there's one complaint about Exterminator, apart from Bobby's rubbish rapping on Pills, it's that much of it feels like reworked outtakes from Vanishing Point.

The duo-only, no bass required songs don't lack for sonic depth. [Sep 2004, p.98]

Knitting it all together, Lustman pens some melodic vignettes of considerable beauty. [Aug 2014, p.91]

Think Metronomy, Junior Boys and a (much) chirpier John Grant. [Sep 2013, p.95]

This brilliant, complex and surprising piece proves to be no exercise in getting to know them better. [Oct 2012, p.82]

Though still no barrel of laughs--far from it--there is evidence of green shoots of hope here. [Dec 2016, p.91]

Yorkston is one of our finest talents, still stretching out. [Feb 2021, p.82]

Some of its finest moments are its most intimate and least arranged. [May 2006, p.99]

The Long Blondes sound pleasingly frayed around the edges. [Dec 2006, p.118]

Cassadaga is an album to warm souls, rally minds and break hearts in equal measure. [May 2007, p.110]

Up And Away is warmer and grittier than its '80s-polished predecessors, infused with the '50s/'60s trad folk and hybrid pop records her grandparents and parents spun for her. [Jul 2022, p.90]

Sounds great and further reveals the era-oddness of Prince's blending of '80s drum machine funk with late-'60s heavy rock. [Jul 2022, p.100]

12 fascinating electro-symphoic constructions informed by dubstep and Delia Darbyshire's BBC Radiophonic Workshop experiments. [Nov 2011, p.103]

Album four reverts to their initial template of hyper-melodic, lyrically skewed, synth-pop. ... Back on form. [Apr 2018, p.87]

A joy. [Nov 2023, p.89]

The shock in this collaboration is that it sounds savagely natural. [Dec. 2011, p.93]