The Philadelphia quartet's second has a deep warmth emanating from it. [Mar 2022, p.82]

In Waves partly mimics the jostle and heave of a crowded dancefloor. All You Children presses The Avalanches into euphoric service, matched for dynamism by Baddy On The Floor, a bend-and-snap collaboration with DJ Honey Dijon. [Nov 2024, p.85]

Most important is the pure joy of these tracks and how instantly likeable they are. [Nov 2012, p.94]

An exercise in economy. [Dec 2006, p.120]

Heavy at heart, but eminently hummable, Sunshine Rock is an affecting, uplifting set. [Mar 2019, p.92]

At 16 tracks Bowler Hat Soup is possibly a little overlong but what is youth for if not indulging a wealth of ideas? [Dec 2013, p.87]

This reissued debut reminds, they were a band better informed--and more thrilling--than most. [Jan 2013, p.106]

It really does seem that a decade-long period of interbal artistic crisis has been resolved, beautifully, even triumphantly. [Apr 2008, p.98]

The short length and minimal production means Untitled Unmastered occasionally lacks the dynamics of Lamar’s previous work, but it remains an enthralling postscript to his masterpiece.

The basic Prinzhorn recipe - extra thick bass-lines and super-primitive stand-up drums, woven together with a lattice of spindly guitar and set off with livid bursts of call-and-response vocal -- remains largely unchanged. [Feb 2012, p.98]

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

Malone excels himself with the brassy pop of 'Lover's Day' and 'Golden Age.' [Oct 2008, p.112]

This album doesn't have the blinding clarity of proper revelation but, in its febrile examination of survival and redemption, Oh My God is on the side of the angels. [May 2019, p.86]

San Franciscan psych moodists here to reclaim independent music. [Jan. 2011, p. 98]

[An] equally engaged, energised follow-up [to 2010's Mshini Wam].[Apr 2012, p.94]

American Classic really shines when the velveteen smoothness takes a backseat to that voice. [Sep 2009, p.90]

The results have the in-the-room intimacy of Lenker's best work. [Apr 2024, p.91]

The most rounded and effervescent of the three [albums]. [May 2015, p.97]

Impressive, beautifully poised stuff. [Jun 2014, p.93]

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]

The music draws on '70s fusion, post-rock and free jazz, and throughout McCaslin's sax expresses boldness, anger, beauty, joy. [Nov 2016, p.92]

The restless thump of Out For The West stands out. [Oct 2014, p.96]

Brit rapper Rodney Smith takes a big step towards national treasure status on sobering fifth album. [Oct 2011, p.99]

Inspired by dives into recessed memories for a concurrent memoir, these songs are testaments to his experiences – and his expertise as a steadfast syndicate of the great rock song. [Oct 2024, p.88]

Dizzying stuff. [Apr 2026, p.91]

Whatever ‘flow’ is, she has it, Koalas and Charlie Potato shimmering like hot tarmac mirages, and trippy closer Surround coming on like Parks and key collaborator Ruari Meehan’s nod to The Orb’s Little Fluffy Clouds. Repeat listens focus the kaleidoscope. [Dec 2024, p.87]

Beach House's second album in three months underlines just how precision-stylised their frosty, often glacially-slow dream-pop has become. [Jan 2016, p.88]

Little Fictions is more upbeat in tempo and outlook an sounds like a band given a jolting shot of B12. [Mar 2017, p.88]