This is a pure genre exercise but done well. [Feb 2017, p.92]

The hazy white noise loops of 2008's Black Sea stripped out in favour of choral drones and soothing gamelan chimes, perfectly suited to the film's meditative, valedictory tone. [Sep 2012, p.95]

This retreat to classical roots is soothing, if a little one-note. [Jul 2020, p.88]

Moodily modish but emotionally intriguing, Arthur Beatrice inhabit a stylish grey area. [Mar 2014, p.92]

While It's Not Me, It's You isn't quite the voice of wisdom, the Mockney chatter has been dialed right down. [Mar 2009, p.108]

This collection of rarities includes songs from their "mystery year" of 1998, an MOR cover oof Toni Braxton's Unbreak My Heart and on, Turn Up The Radio, a song written as a YouTube collaboration with fans, yet is still stronger than most albums in the current mainstream pop/punk realm. [Jan 2011, p.110]

They sound more and more as if they've found a sound that they can all their own. [Apr 2012, p.94]

Braxton ventures far from the strictures of traditional rock. Indeed, he's cleared passport control and stepped into the realms of modern classical music. [Oct 2009, p.103]

Bonkers idea. ... Stranger still, the whole thing works a treat. [Nov 2021, p.87]

First Aid Kit's debut sounds like a signifier of greater things to come. [Mar 2010, p.90]

The result is a dreamlike state of unease and wonder, in which you don't know where you are, or what's coming next. [Aug 2018, p.94]

An endearingly petulant collection of nasty hardcore guitar tunes.

The 12 songs are dilatant, vibrant. [Oct 2016, p.93]

[Michael Christmas's] relentlessly goofy and incredulous tales about everyday absurdities crown an unconventional marriage made in alt-rap heaven. [Oct 2016, p.97]

Home is as challenging as it is comforting. [Mar 2021, p.85]

While all but a handful of the songs from the 13 track Angels & Queens have already been drip-fed via a series of singles, EPs and last year's seven-track mini-album, Gabriels' desire to take their time with the making of their long-awaited debut album has certainly paid off. [Jun 2023, p.84]

It feels more like 10 individual songs than an album. [Mar 2017, p.93]

Oodles of unashamed, unabashed fun, Going Way Out is perfect music to sculpt pompadours to. [Oct 2007, p.99]

Thai guitar, Saharan rock give a focus and momentum; a groove underpinning the bracing freeform racket. [Apr 2018, p.96]

It's not a bad album, just not that distinctive. [May 2008, p.111]

Songs with fuller backing reveal much melodic moxie. [May 2016, p.96]

Everyday Demons ticks all the hard rock boxes. That there isn't a single orginal idea on display here doesn't actually matter. [Mar 2009, p.105]

Nine of its 10 songs are around the three-minute mark and as solid and straightahead as the tank behind whose wheel they might've been written. [May 2009, p.98]

Where time truly has no meaning is in the lyrics. [Apr 2014, p.96]

A more tasteful affair [than Leave Home], tapping into the 1980s underground's collegiate, powerpop end... plus straight-ahead rock-n-roll holler. [May 2012, p.82]

There are no masterpieces here. But it's a brave venture nonetheless, and one that does succeed in becoming something more than the sum of its parts. [Jan 2010, p. 95]

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

A convincing musical narrative for young life in the UK today. [May 2011, p.104]