End Beginnings can fill rooms - but is equally devastating on headphones. [May 2025, p.91]

Litle Feat aren't reinventing the wheel here, but the one they have still works just fine. [Jun 2025, p.87]

Yildirim's group put the focus on melody, instrumental prowess and the melancholy in her voice. [Aug 2025, p.83]

The songs here are among his most direct and fully focused. [Oct 2025, p.81]

With producer Danger Mouse's nuanced psychedelic rock and soul backdrops, scintillating pop music with substance results. [May 2008, p.103]

It's a dream, this pop. [Nov 2011, p.100]

The ballads bewitch, reminding us that Tracey is one of the unique British voices, up there with Dusty. [Apr 2007, p.100]

The whole sprawl of tooting loops, sawing violins and Pallett's unlovely operatic warbling feels gruelling and indigestible - prog stodge in a dashing post millennial disguise. [Feb 2010, p. 93]

In all, a tad more mannered and staid than you'd expect from these former experimentalists. [Mar 2013, p.94]

It's knowingly throwaway exhilaration all the way. [Nov 2014, p.95]

All in all, the Monkeys' sixth long-player is a bold move. [Jun 2018, p.95]

There are times on Bunny when Dear doesn't stray far from the hypnotic, hedonistic mood that underpins his dancefloor moniker, Audion. ... But Bunny really shows its teeth on Can You Rush Them. A smouldering, malevolent breakbeat stomp, its exhortation to "take back the streets" hints at America's political turmoil. [Nov 2018, p.86]

An uncomfortable yet rewarding listen. [Dec 2006, p.110]

It features the Bright Eyes/Desaparecidos frontman alone with piano, harmonica and guitar, putting down songs never quite intended as an album. This sparseness means that the focus on Oberst is tight--maybe too tight. [Nov 2016, p.90]

[The] band's fine third album. [May 2018, p.92]

A musical sub-genre rebooted. [May 2009, p.104]

Hugely enjoyable, with nagging tunes too, but let's move forward next time. [Mar 2009, p.106]

Some career-catchiest tunes and a lively self-production make Sing an absolute triumph in repositioning. [Mar 2020, p.91]

There are featureless patches, bits of white-box real-estate that need a little more character, but there's always something intriguing around V's corners. [Apr 2023, p.89]

In a life of perpetual motion, Perils From The Sea provides a vital forward thrust. [Jul 2013, p.86]

Early Riser is a special album that pulls you deep into its alternative universe. [Aug 2014, p.92]

Neilson's own reedy but elemental voice is the perfect foil to this, and the myriad musical ideas are nailed down by classic, disciplined songwriting. [May 2009, p.108]

The album follows a North American folk linage from Jean Ritchie and Hedy West through to the present, via the chugging, churning electronic (folk) rock of The Velvet Underground, all the time infused with a joyous communal warmth. [Nov 2012, p.85]

In general the Heaton touchstones are all present here--shortage of definite articles, politics, wrinkles, a rockabilly number--with an energy and a sly melodic wit which puts Crooked Calypso up with his best work. [Sep 2017, p.90]

These are exotic lullabies which, superficial cosiness notwithstanding, lead only to nocturnal anxiety. [Apr 2018, p.91]

What's compelling is the precision and control of her voice, moving from a whisper to a scream on tracks like Broken Rib, or the industrial glam stomp rocker No Good For People. Lyrically, too, she has honed her songwriting skill. [Oct 2025, p.93]

Less chaotic and parochial, more serene and accessible, but no less magical. [May 2005, p.96]

At her new best, Peyroux sings as elegantly as Peggy Lee and writes lines bearing the downbeat clarity of Leonard Cohen. [Apr 2009, p.98]