Overall the feel is sparse and desolate. [Jun 2015, p.89]

More muscular, less ethereal than 2007's "...Are The Dark Horse," it is no less exciting. [Apr 2010, p.99]

Penn returns with a rare album, mightily played and poignantly sung. [Oct 2020, p.86]

Don't worry so much about what it all means, lie back and let the tape hiss. [Jun 2024, p.89]

Desire Lines is the immaculately conceived album they've always threatened to make. [Aug 2013, p.92]

The languid voiced one has rarely sounded better. [Jun 2012, p.100]

With its transforming moods and quiet beauty, Stars Are The Light might just be Moon Duo's finest to date. [Oct 2019, p.83]

The spring in their step has a dangerously sharp point to increase Never's allure. [Aug 2012, p.87]

Affecting, uplifting, damned catchy. [Oct 2015, p.94]

With shade and contrast added to the anthems, the songs emerge from a brooding, often restrained darkness so when Fray and co click into euphoric chorus gear they genuinely soar. [Dec 2016, p.92]

This is a musical round-trip calculated to delight anyone who has previously enjoyed Can or Amon Duul's loose-limbed walks on the cod-tribal wild side--and enlighten anyone who hasn't. [Oct 2014, p.93]

A suite of songs involving a character returning from a near-death experience, it works just as well without the plot. Still, there are twists and turns aplenty. [Jan 2021, p.91]

Hi Honey ultimately triumphs thanks to its creator' perfect chemistry. [Aug 2015, p.93]

25 tracks of faux-Brill Building candy, corn and echo-laden chaos with linernotes by Richie Unterberger worthy of a PhD thesis. It is also an essential, at times wickedly delightful‚ corrective to the habitual dismissals of this era, Reed’s included. [Nov 2024, p.96]

With most cuts clocking in under five minutes, Sonancy's austere precision carries right through to its auteur's Chrome-esque robo voicing. [Apr 2022, p.80]

Even in Beth's comfort zone, her acoustic band, produced by Tucker Martine, enrich some beguiling songs, with not a dud among them. [Nov 2012, p.90]

Each song is perfectly realised.[Mar 2021, p.90]

Languid piano, sleazy Rickenbacker, intellectual Lothario. Lethal. [Oct 2016, p.96]

This is possibly the most optimistic album about depression ever made. [Mar 2007, p.98]

Lyrics tend toward the brutal, but there's tenderness too. [Mar 2020, p.92]

The opener, Demba Kunda, suggests a straight-forward instrumental set; but French singer Camille's hymn around the sound of the word "kora" is transcendent; Piers Faccini's vocals take you one step higher; and there's a slightly hoarse-sounding Salif Keita thrown in as a bonus. [May 2021, p.85]

Rousing sedated melodies under a blanket of distortion. [Mar 2019, p.99]

All in all, it's lovely, uplifting stuff. [Aug 2022, p.87]

The results, recorded in Brooklyn over two years, are something of a revelation. [Mar 2025, p.82]

Breathlessly brilliant stuff. [Sep 2022, p.93]

It's A Myth is like a musical Mondrian painting: all bold lines and defined patterns effortlessly delivered, but oblique and enigmatic too. [Jun 2017, p.87]

A band effort. And it shows in the diversity and quality of the songs. ... A fine album. [Aug 2020, p.93]

Julian Casablancas emerges with this engagingly odd collection of songs. [Nov 2009, p.92]