This is Wilson's most potent release to date, its title referencing a subtle fudging of classic country tropes with more modern textures. [Apr 2020, p.93]

The pervading mood of Dedication is oppressive and borderline paranoid, but it makes for wonderfully innovative, state-of-the-art urban electronica. [Aug. 2011, p. 104]

The arrangements within are more ebullient and wide-ranging. ... His subjects - all character sketches of friends or chance meetings - are also multifaceted. [May 2020, p.89]

A psych-folk bent for harmonic discord and atmospheric dread finds something forever sinister lodged at the album's heart: the kind of beauty that makes sailors run aground. [Dec 2008, p.102]

The LP is a treat, like listening to an oracle from the depths of a digital cave. [Feb 2024, p.86]

Three Demons is yet wilder, more alien and untidy, swerving trad rockabilly's regulation grooves and crescendos in search of an often sinister and cactus-trippy otherness. [Jun 2019, p.94]

Nelson has impeccable taste in cover versions. [May 2013, p.87]

The Chieftains lay a vibrant carpet of colour but veering between joyous and heartbreaking, the fiery Mexican element is what makes it so compelling. [Apr 2010, p.105]

The piano's push into poignancy is occasionally too much, but Yawny Yawn largely feels like new information, a clear-sighted re-vision of a tremendous set of songs. [Sep 2019, p.86]

At Asiatisch's heart is bass, gargantuan and window rattling, around which she builds an elaborate framework of complex rhythms and melodies using analogue hardware. [Jun 2014, p.93]

A sweet yet spiky soundtrack for our march into oblivion. [Jun 2014, p.89]

Simultaneously beautiful and uncanny. [May 2012, p.89]

The formula still works a treat. [Dec 2021, p.86]

There are a few other naff moments, but Gallagher's voice carries everything, sounding fantastic, high and bright in the mix. [Oct 2019, p.82]

A collaboration where each sulphurous element perfectly complements the others. [Jan 2022, p.90]

The new sound of young Scotland. [Dec 2025, p.82]

Not only the bravest record she's ever made, it's also one of the strangest and most uncompromising by a major artist to get a commercial release. [Sep 2004, p.93]

A striking mix of rock and electronics on Philadelphia group's second record. [Sept. 2011, p. 94]

The trio's vocal harmonies have lost none of their warm-blooded magic. [Nov 2018, p.96]

More than just a decent nu-folk album, Babel is a great pop album. [Oct 2012, p.82]

The immediacy and bare-wire fizz suit his lyrical candour. [Oct 2014, p.96]

bdrmm's murky spider play tugs at the listener's emotions in unanticipated ways. [Aug 2023, p.87]

Persuasive R&B with strident lyrics and sharp sonics. [Jan 2016, p.98]

The snotty attitude of MIA's incendiary globalist skipping rhymes has never been better balanced with first-rate pop hooks. [Jan 2014, p.96]

It's the same PSB sound--huge electronic hooks wed to archly recited lyrics. The only difference is almost every track here is a potential hit. [Apr 2009, p.100]

The overall effect is more inline with how Townes made his early albums. [Jun 2009, p.96]

The Stylistics would've killed for a song like Paradise, and I'm not sure they'd have performed it better. [Aug 2025, p.82]

The results make for a chilling and captivating experience, with the unexpected musical flourishes in stop-start songs. [Sep 2009, p.104]