Often you wonder exactly what you're hearing; you just know you haven't heard it before. [Aug 2020, p.87]

It's like watching people chuck matches into a box of fireworks: sparks everywhere, but - excitingly, frustratingly - you're never sure where they're going to land. [Aug 2021, p.80]

Love Chant might also be described as scrappy, vulnerable and heartfelt, but it is also loose, exuberant and animated in a manner that seems faithful to who Dando is today. [Nov 2025, p.84]

Sounds reassuringly expensive. ... Decent instrumental takes on Lao Schifrin's The Cat plus Fiona Apple's elegant Don't Worry 'Bout Me make this more than the stocking-filler that won't unnerve Aunt Norah. [Jan 2020, p.90]

There's no doubt Mackenzie Scott never stops moving here, switching between gothic sway, grungy stomp and electro-pop gyration, but it can make it hard to catch her eye in a meaningful way. [Mar 2024, p.86]

This set is more ambitious, sometimes bonkers [than his previous two albums]. [Jun 2016, p.91]

Overall, it's the sound of a band rejuvenated. [May 2024, p.84]

His own three songs blend in nicely. [Apr 2006, p.90]

A hypnotic and original treat, an utterly timeless futurist retro symphony. [Jan 2008, p.100]

Palme finds Arnalds in fresh, electronically enhanced surroundings. [Nov 2014, p.96]

That Cambodian rock band with a repertoire of the most obscure covers have grown up--and no snakes were harmed in the making of this album.

Charmingly wobbly Edwyn Collins-produced debut. [Dec 2017, p.96]

A career-builder, if not a game-changer. [Jun 2019, p.89]

Love Your Dum And Mad [is] a piercingly direct seduction of the senses. [Aug 2013, p.88]

Those inimitable Laibach humours look set to endure. [Apr 2014, p.92]

A brace of curiously tuneful, bluesy-psych pop songs. [Apr 2013, p.98]

This treads similar terrain [to 2016's Last Days Of Oakland], burrowing into Delta blues, weaving in elements of Leadbelly, Prince-style funk and hip-hop loops. [Jul 2018, p.96]

Gallipoli, recorded in Berlin and Puglia, is oddly unmoving, lacking range for all its seductive picturesque roaming. [Mar 2019, p.96]

Ultimately, it's the push and pull between Duncan Bellamy's mantric hang-drums and Jack Wyllie's floating sax lines that ensure these widescreen creations feel so vividly full of life. [Dec 2021, p.89]

There is a pinch of prog too, manifested in kaleidoscopic intricacy rather than anything unnecessarily tricksy - their sound remains muscular and funky. [Feb 2010]

Might well be their strongest, most brain-mulching statement to date. [Aug. 2011, p. 106]

Musically, it's a radical rethink. [May 2019, p.89]

The effect is memorable. [Oct 2012, p.91]

Mess's crepuscular predecessor felt both more innovative, and more likely to open up Liars' demographic. [Apr 2014, p.92]

Enter is 21st century big band jazz at its most brain-spinning. [Sep 2014, p.91]

A touch of feyness lingers. Not much, though. [Feb 2016, p.95]

Louris and company have created a soothing balm for overly neurotic and trying times. [Sep 2018, p.89]

There's more to the differences between the two versions, however, than a valve amp versus the original's solid state, with over 30 years of musicianship and experience bringing the songs up to modern speed. [Sep 2018, p.92]