This is an album of winsome alt country charm, like a pleasant cousin of Ryan Adams. [Feb 2004, p.98]

Their atmospheric twist'n'drone merits more acclaim than they've received so far. [Mar 2003, p.112]

She's still producing songs that stand comparison with those past and purloined classics. [Aug 2002, p.106]

This is a more consistent set, and, hopefully, a revelation for a few young metal heads. [Feb 2003, p.89]

Their horizons have broadened. [Feb 2005, p.102]

An entirely silly album. [Jan 2006, p.120]

Public Enemy are still making music of great substance and potency. [Dec 2002, p.122]

[A] fractiously funky but resolutely glum return. [Dec 2002, p.108]

Most of which 'works', all of which comes thick with a sense of joy and love for the denim and leather. [Mar 2004, p.106]

An album of relentless, aching beauty. [Mar 2003, p.96]

Their most primitive, intimate and vocally oriented [album] yet. [May 2005, p.108]

Top-down pop that sparkles like a lifeguard's teeth. [Jul 2003, p.109]

The wit and intelligence rarely lets up. [May 2003, p.95]

Pearl Jam sound reborn, vital. [Jul 2006, p.112]

Innovative it's not. [Oct 2006, p.112]

This is more than a nostalgia trip. [Apr 2005, p.102]

A razor sharp updating of previous themes. [Aug 2004, p.98]

Joni Mitchell's voice these days is as complex and adult as bourbon whiskey. [Dec 2002, p.116]

The lyrics veer towards simplistic, but Destiny pull it off, mainly through muscular production and stunning vocal interplay. [Jan 2005, p.97]

Fennesz excels when he squeezes something truly sublime and undeniably human through his gritty, labyrinthine microprocessors. [Jun 2004, p.112]

An evocative set of instrumentals, rich in texture and gentle, melancholic beauty. [May 2007, p.103]

It's perhaps a tad effortful here and there, but it's gloriously impolite. [Apr 2004, p.113]

The synth-laden tunes are relentlessly upbeat--sort of New Order on Prozac--with a Lightning Seeds blitheness.... Though no groundbreaker, 'Monaco' is catchy as flu.

Their pop peaks sound like an ecstatic communion of Mercury Rev, ELO and the cast of Hair. [Oct 2002, p.110]

Whereas Eno's purest ambient music has such an organic abstractness the listener stops thinking about what is actually producing the sounds, Lanois favours guitars, which links his music more to established styles. [Jul 2005, p.110]

While their material lacks the instant hooks of attention-snaring contemporaries like The Handsome Family, [it] rings with a robust authenticity. [Jul 2003, p.112]

An aptly schizophrenic alternative history. [May 2005, p.114]

Never less than fresh-sounding and curious. [Jun 2005, p.110]