The album feels confessional, courageous. ... Yes it can be bleak as hell but Flamagra's artistic artistic triumphs are sublimely uplifting. [Jul 2019, p.92]

A formidable piece of work, repositioning Mercer away from his Pacific Northwest indie rock peer group. [Apr 2012, p.82]

It's that innate ability with a tune which separates Miike Snow from common or garden pop varieties. [Apr 2012, p.91]

Full of perfect pop, its 10 songs are giddy bursts of optimism and wonderment. [Nov 2022, p.86]

Sparse backing, strings or a brimming organ interject occasionally, and enhance their combined voices on a brilliantly realised record. [Aug 2009, p.100]

A Fool To Care has scarcely a weak note. [May 2015, p.90]

Charitable largesse aside, it's a must-have for fans of anyone involved. [Sep 2009, p.98]

[A] dazzling modern dance album. [Jun 2015, p.94]

A significant return to form. [Feb 2003, p.86]

They're more straightforward than they've ever been. .... They're not slackening. [May 2024, p.86]

They sing beautifully together and play everything. [Mar 2023, p.83]

While it's true you can often hear what upset the highlife connoisseurs, the bulk of this collection of outsider art holds up 30-plus years on. [Jun 2024, p.98]

Deep, mournful, impressive. [Apr 2004, p.99]

His most satisfying outing in decades. [Apr 2023, p.85]

An album that's thoughtful, emotional, expertly crafted and often sublime. [Nov 2019, p.84]

His own poetic, empathetic songs have a knack of turning modern ills into careworn country classicism. [May 2022, p.96]

Equal parts bludgeoning Art Brut and soaring pop grace. [Aug 2006, p.94]

A lively set that's way above par. [Jan 2019, p.92]

The results are as wildly evocative as anything by Steve Reich or Terry Riley, but thunderously affecting on their own terms. [Jan 2019, p.85]

What makes this more than a self-indulgence is the mellow melancholy he brings. [Oct 2006, p.103]

There's something romantic about this quiet, thoughtful music, but there's a sad quality to it too. [Feb 2017, p.94]

A smattering of era-appropriate scene-setting standards sit surprisingly snugly amid the bespoke symphonic esoterica--all further testament to greenwood's deep, intrinsic musicality. [Dec 2012, p.88]

The Oakland outfit grasp the slippery concept of time with philosophical relish and an abundance of psychotropic imagery on this conceptual sixth album. [Dec 2014, p.93]

Afrucaine 808 have perfected a highly effective remedy to standing still. [Feb 2016, p.94]

Special Moves/Burning might just serve as a fittingly monolithic monument to their work to date. [Sep 2010, p.98]

A true treasure from the archives. [Dec 2014, p.109]

With these elegantly devastating songs, she carves put a space, and a class, all of her own. [Mar 2019, p.91]

it's uncompromising stuff, but these unsung horrors are unsung no more. [Apr 2018, p.92]