If April's slick Midnight Rockers album was a post Studio One career highlight for reggae legend Horace Andy, then this dubbed-up companion LP even takes it up a notch. [Oct 2022, p.82]

High Flyin' is a highlight of the bootleg series so far. [Jun 2023, p.105]

Road is a hugely enjoyable hoot. [Oct 2023, p.82]

As with FWF, it’s hard to discern any redemptive purpose other than the release of darker energies, but on that score Wither’s Suicide-esque pulse, All The Same’s filthy, Decius-style hi-NRG and Running’s synth-bashing rush best hit FD’s target. [Oct 2024, p.86]

Inspired by dives into recessed memories for a concurrent memoir, these songs are testaments to his experiences – and his expertise as a steadfast syndicate of the great rock song. [Oct 2024, p.88]

The Fateful Symmetry finds this political/music-making radical at his most approachable and reflective, often structuring intimate 'proper' songs around piano chords and unabashedly catchy hooks. [Aug 2025, p.79]

The swooshing, intricate Doll's House might be The Orb's purest house moment yet, preceding a closing brace, Under The bed and Kharon, that represent ambient Orb in excelsis. [Nov 2025, p.91]

The results are urgent, direct yet cerebral, drawing on some familiar touchstones. [May 2007, p.114]

Wolf's sing-speak vocals are arresting. [May 2008, p.112]

There are ravishing moments and startling lines, but these 10 tracks collectively plod, the band's early sugar-rush sophistication never returning to grace this deliberate growth. [May 2023, p.88]

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

The southern legend's first solo outing in 14 years. [Feb. 2011, p. 108]

Act Surprised's high yield of killer songs hardly suffers for its absence of oddball filler. [Jun 2019, p.90]

Muscular adaptations of Stephen Stills' How Far and Parliament's Get On Out Of The Rain stray into '70s Who territory, with stirring arrangements and hot Townshend licks, while his courageous tilt at Nick Cave piano ballad Into My Arms roils with heartache that can;t be faked. [Jun 2018, p.89]

Ocean Child achieves its aim - emphasising the vibrant depth of Yoko Ono's (approximately) infinite universe. [Apr 2022, p.83]

[A] selection of sparingly produced wistfulness. [Jan 2013, p.95]

Stereo Mind Game certainly sustains an atmosphere, but it's a brooding and bleak one, and at times the darkness of Daughter's dream-pop can feel a bit suffocating. [Jun 2023, p.85]

Luna's obsessive valve-amp loveliness is here supplanted by a more varied spread. [Apr 2014, p.95]

It's a hugely inventive slab of sonic theatre plotted to the tiniest detail. [Oct 2016, p.99]

The immediacy and bare-wire fizz suit his lyrical candour. [Oct 2014, p.96]

Not that much has changed sound-wise. [Jul 2005, p.114]

Perfectly conceived and executed, the album is a beautiful collection of mood music. [May 2007, p.112]

Thrilling, unpredictable and often inspired stuff. [Nov 2019, p.86]

This is chic pop electronica. [Aug 2005, p.101]

Things dip slightly in the middle when Jackson's reedy vocals are exposed against a mid-tempo backing, but it's a minor quibble. [Jul 2009, p.98]

Given the backdrop to Joan Wasser's second album was her mother's passing to cancer, it's unsurprising that To Survive also packs a soporific sadness that can be draining despite our hostess's artistry. [July 2008, p.110]

By and large, as per its title, Yours, Dreamily is a downtempo treat, tailor-made for sundazed summer evening drives with the window down. [Sep 2015, p.87]

Their best by a country mile. [Oct 2005, p.118]