Davachi’s work can be gently provocative but it’s never anything less than stimulating. [Oct 2024, p.91]

While Corporal is recognisably Lorelle Meets The Obsolete, their seventh LP is evidence for a reinvigoration; one which may bring fresh ears their way. [Nov 2025, 85]

The guests - six singers including Belle And Sebastian's Stuart Murdoch and SFA's Gruff Rhys - seem attuned to Wasylyk's rising star, all sounding suitably entranced and inspired. [Apr 2026, p.93]

Ultimately, Transmitter is a quiet beauty. [May 2026, p.86]

It'll be a bit much for the casual fan with no need for all those stereo/mono variations, but they do have at least a couple dozen other best-ofs to choose from. [Oct 2013, p.102]

This album feels personal, contemplative, yet thanks to Harris's blurred vocals, the meaning is never in focus, like notes sent back from the edge of a waking dream. [Oct 2021, p.96]

Hercules And Love Affair exist in that mighty unreal demimonde where dancing and art are not mutually exclusive. [Apr 2008, p.105]

He still sings very much from the heart, though, and the result is altogether awesome. [Apr 2013, p.94]

Walls is an essential slice of art-punk history. It's also a blistering good time. [Apr 2024, p.97]

What is missing is that impish, dangerous side, the famous contorted grin and all that it suggests: humour and horror, surprise and confrontation. [Nov 2014, p.89]

Nothing fundamental has changed, the attack is just more scrupulous. ... Hot Snakes' caustic, erudite commentary is more welcome than ever. [Apr 2018, p.88]

This is very much a thoughtful, interior record, with its own distinct character and an unsettling quality that gets under your skin. [Jan 2021, p.91]

Life Is People is superb. [Sep 2012, p.84]

The result is fittingly breathtaking, a singer destroying his own work, yet creating something more elegiac and profound in the process. [Aug 2016, p.90]

Toledo's ability to craft songs that swerve from fuzz-pop to jaded melancholia making him a cut above his underground contemporaries. [Jun 2016, p.92]

Regardless of how they're captured, these songs still have the capacity to enthrall. [Jan 2017, p.113]

Comprising mostly new material, the performances are frequently breathtaking. [Mar 2013, p.91]

Snocaps might plan on melting away as quickly as they formed, but here, at least, they've left an indelible mark. [Jan 2026, p.80]

Here he marmelises the American songbook, 99c cut-out standards mutilated and reanimated by Delta blues magick. [Nov 2013, p.89]

Grand intermeshing spinneys of lush ambient sound, distant pounding beats, lonesome horns and glimpsed shadows of melody that hint at Beethoven, Mozart and older Teutonic ghosts. [Jun 2017, p.89]

Krlic has created a world in which the music of ancient tradition works like a sonic virus that simultaneously soothes and eats away at your very soul. [Dec 2019, p.95]

Sampha's solo debut sits somewhere between the ghostly avant-soul if Frank Ocean and James Blake's emotionally wrought electronica. [Mar 2017, p.90]

The highest of hi-technicalia and lo-fi acoustic instruments alternately clash, embrace, or pull apart, but ultimately, like Siamese twins, can't be parted. [Jun 2003, p.110]

This is an album of stadium sized melodies and exquisite songwriting, allied with almost too many ideas. [Jun 2003, p.110]

SFA's first truly flawless album.... Sad, lush, romantic, beautiful, heartbroken, crazy, this is an album powerful enough to make you shout out loud in public or cry alone at night. [Aug 2001, p.96]

Baxter Dury blossomed on 2017's Prince Of Tears. ... This sixth solo outing explores further that album's blend of mechanical funk and luxuriant orchestration of female-sung choruses and character monologues. [Apr 2020, p.86]

This 5-CD sets lets us revel in his creative process. [Nov 2021, p.102]

Magnificent. [Jul 2005, p.100]