It's their immersion in multi-layered psychedelia that give Midnight Sun its compellingly ominous underpinning and complete two-sides-of-vinyl feel. [Jun 2014, p.91]

There's alot of her here, and the connections are all her own. [Jun 2014, p.89]

Music is fitful and its charms aren't all immediate, but Madonna is still doing what she does best--giving a lick of pop genius to the unlikely genre of experimental dance music.

A powerful intoxicant rather than just another retro genre exercise. [Sep 2016, p.92]

A multifaceted diamond that moves his gentle vocals between musical dark corners and soaring expanses. [Sep 2016, p.99]

Blood Money makes for an extravagant headphone experience if you're in the right frame of mind. If not, its clatter and blare and nihilism will genuinely jangle your nerves. [Co-Album Of The Month (with 'Alice'), May 2002, p.94]

It's hot, loose, raucous, and retro in an overlapping-era kind of way. [Jun 2012, p.93]

Are Possible grasps the roots of folk tradition and propels them enthusiastically into new terrain. [Sep 2024, p.88]

She counts up her decades on the twinkly Hell-Oh Sixty, ponders the cruel power of good hair on Bangs, and documents love passing its sell-by date on The Farewell Tour, before finding Tom Petty-ish redemption with closing heartbreaker Last Night’s Rainbow. [Oct 2024, p.89]

It's all as subtle as a flurry of punches in the face, but utterly uplifting. [Dec 2016, p.92]

[MC Taylor's] voice is a gorgeous, low-slung burr, his melodies are fireside-warm, his restless imagination follows the lineage of Southern literary giant Eudora Welty and the collective chops, overseen by long-time studio accomplice Scott Hirsch, are impeccable. [Oct 2014, p.92]

Garvey's poetics have acquired more acuity. [Dec 2015, p.86]

Football Money is breezy and concise--10 songs, 28 minutes--but generously ladled with charm. [Feb 2020, p.86]

Some of the 11 songs have a rich band sound with strings and strong piano, and others a spare contemplative tone. [Nov 2012, p.88]

There's beauty here, but Pine slowly melts away the frosted surface to reveal it's not an uncomplicated joy. [Apr 2026, p.88]

The eight-song concoction is a joyful, lush and fittingly grandiose suite. [Feb 2017, p.93]

An intriguing, funny and inventive listen. [Nov 2006, p.101]

The music, which is characterised by extraordinary switches in style, reflects the diversity of the archive, morphing from bleepy electronic and futuristic R&B to churning garage rock with distorted megaphone vocals. [Oct 2023, p.81]

Song-for-song Damage And Joy is the most rewarding Jesus And Mary Chain album since their prime. [Apr 2017, p.92]

Although only nine tracks, it's a sprawling affair revisiting just about every road he's previously travelled, but somehow tying them all together for the first time. [Dec 2023, p.92]

At times it's all too much, but Christinzio knows how to burn without crashing. [May 2020, p.88]

Bauhaus Staircase shows OMD thriving as much as surviving. [Dec 2023, p.91]

Crafty, insidious creations which gradually accrue substance and emotional heft even as they remain soothing on the ear. [Jul 2021, p.83]

Tke heart and enjoy The Boss's galvanising newie--Mr. Motivator is back. [Mar 2009, p.102]

Sunnier than before, Malamore is a swirl of pounding drums, spoken French, baroque melodies. [May 2016, p.96]

Sardonic, wistful, always finely wrought songs. [Apr 2014, p.98]

Featuring chamber music, operatic art singing, spoken word, drum circles and horns and woodwinds ecstatically blowing--all outside-time examples of the group's motto: "Great Black Music, Ancient too the Future." [Aug 2019, p.95]

It's the brooding dancefloor ordnance which marks Hairless Toys as a career highlight. [Jun 2015, p.88]