This is undoubtedly his best record...

Powerful and anthemic, the trio's driving, Goth-forsaken rock can also be overwhelming and cloying. [Sep 2003, p.99]

The strongest Chili's album since 1991's Blood Sugar Sex Magik.

Reveals a still intense and enthralling grittiness to her performances. [Feb 2006, p.93]

They've surpassed most of their contemporaries to climb right to the top of the chill-out tree. [Sep 2004, p.104]

Engaging, inventive and emotionally charged. [Nov 2005, p.96]

Echoboy nonchalantly pits twittering electronica and filmic ambiences against garage guitar riffing and sugary Europop: the result is an unpredictable 45-minute journey in sound. And it's an alluring trip for the most part.

Neptunes' grooves and collaborators score an impressive hit rate. [Sep 2003, p.111]

An album that, by turns, is lacerating and seductive. [Sep 2006, p.106]

An overreaching cathedral, designed by Spiritualized, Kris Kristoferson and John Barry, Human Conditions still somehow charms with its hungry troubadour's idealism. [Nov 2002, p.102]

lang's expansive delivery makes the album sound overblown in a few places. [Oct 2004, p.102]

His most satisfying album in a decade. [Dec 2006, p.106]

Should please any Stone Roses fan. [Mar 2004, p.108]

A collision of Dylanesque surrealism and Bert Janschian finger-picking. [Nov 2004, p.114]

Nobody's idea of "the new rock'n'roll," certainly, but it rings seductively true. [Mar 2003, p.109]

As accomplished as anything in his storied catalogue. [Jul 2003, p.113]

Rocks and then rocks harder, launching wave after wave of vicious punk hooks. [Jul 2005, p.106]

They present a united, often more supple front. [Nov 2003, p.131]

The results can, surprisingly, prove as musically rewarding as they are entertaining.

Their most accessible, and arguably best, long-player yet. [Apr 2003, p.112]

Their continued presence is reassuring, confirming that there are enough people sufficiently interested in old-fashioned rap music to ensure the group's survival. And this album, logically, is made for those listeners, not to pander to a theoretical multitude. [Aug 2003, p.94]

Michael Lockwood's production occasionally affects a sound akin to a Vonda Sheppard reared on black dreams and Russian literature. [Oct 2002, p.98]

Occasionally meanders into lift muzak for people who only ever travel in really cool lifts. [Mar 2003, p.103]

Ooz[es] between queasy fantasy and distorted reality. [Mar 2007, p.105]

[It] is largely unfettered by the dictates of genre. [Jul 2006, p.106]

Subtle string and brass arrangements add to the brooding, stylish swing, evidence that some things never go out of fashion. [Sep 2002, p.97]

The best of The Trouble With Being Myself finds Gray grinning. [Jun 2003, p.98]

The Smog's winning streak [is] intact. [Aug 2006, p.88]