Diving into yesterday never sounded so good. [Aug 2014, p.90]

[IX meerges] distortion and tunes with heartfelt euphoria and big breakdowns. [Dec 2014, p.102]

All pomp and bluster, like Coldplay at their most bombastic. [Mar 2004, p.108]

Although Duffy sounds like a pissed Year 9 teacher on 'Live And Let Die' and The Hold Steady confirm suspicions that their greatest strength is being an E Street Band covers act on Bruce Springsteen's 'Atlantic City,' Hot Chip, Peaches, TV On The Radio and Elbow all go that extra mile to create something new, unique and often quite wonderful. [Apr 2009, p.101]

Despite the elegant grey-sky thinking, deep beneath the emotional permafrost, Piramida isn't as cold as it seems. [Oct 2012, p.86]

A debut packed with infectious fun. [Feb 2016, p.94]

Warm, understated third LP. [Nov 2016, p.96]

Gutter Tactics is their most approachable set to date. [Mar 2009, p.107]

An engaging, yet still hip-swinging trip. [Jun 2015, p.96]

And while White Rabbits' wild Americana and freaked folk makes for a varied and vivid sprawl of sounds, their knack for addictive melody and honed songcraft delivers a beguiling, coherent and memorable whole. [Feb 2010, p. 97]

Super Furry frontman's third solo venture, its title inspired by hair product freebies. [March 2011, p. 98]

This album isn't shy, but the jittery electro-pomp and lyrical cleverness can feel off-puttingly arch. [Aug 2016, p.90]

Raft is a woozy drift between euphoria and unease. [Aug 2017, p.31]

For all its skill you do miss Neville Staple's aggro, Roddy Radiation's punk-Chuck Berry guitars, and inevitably, Jerry Dammers' singular, maddening vision. [Mar 2019, p.88]

Canny, foundation-shaking urban pop. [Jun 2015, p.91]

Defiantly dark, dense and hazy hip hop and paranoid urban blues. [Nov 2015, p.93]

A fine album is in here, but on this evidence, embracing the instinctive over the reflective might have been a better strategy. [Apr 2020, p.89]

The songs on Enter Now Brightness, however, suggest no dulling of Reid’s songwriting senses, just an acute desire to keep moving closer to seeing the light. [Mar 2025, p.85]

Often he makes a lot of noise without really connecting. [Oct 2004, p.100]

A beautifully honed vision of an often-harsh landscape. [Aug 2018, p.89]

Mines dips and twists spindly, telescopic guitar lines, taut coils of rhythm and controlled electronic pulses. [Oct. 2010, p. 100]

The New York boy-girl duo make sweet love to a musical memory. [July 2011, p. 107]

It's unfair he no longer sounds unique. As a transmitter for cute. stylistic oddness, though, he remains staunch. [Sep 2017, p.96]

Motion Sickness won't convert the uninitiated, but offers subtle craftsmanship and deft musicianship. [Feb 2006, p.95]

This is the sound of a band making a bold, if not entirely original, creative leap. [Mar 2014, p.92]

This solo debut sits her ripe, occasionally darkly brooding voice--Rachel Sweet with a hatchet--against grungy country and knowing '60s vibes. [Apr 2017, p.93]

A bloody-nosed hardcore ruckus that makes no bones of its debt to Black Flag's vintage thuggery. [Aug 2016, p.97]

There's not a single weak link on this excellent record. [Aug 2005, p.100]