There's a sense that such modishly retro melancholia might have had its moment, but given that a yearning for what's been lost shades Static so starkly, that notion can only enhance the mood. [Dec 2013, p.85]

Citay's third album ratchets up the production values from its predecessor, 2007's "Little Kingdom," emphasising deluxe stoner grooves and coruscating fuzz-guitar wig-outs. [Mar 2010, p.92]

Intense and moving. [Jul 2011, p.105]

Car Alarm offers a fine entry point into the quartet's breezy soundworld. [Nov 2008, p.110]

The latter tracks sink into Beck-by-numbers fare. [Nov 2006, p.100]

Atmospheric, reverbed beats that suggest indie boys who dance. [Feb 2013, p.98]

This covers collection moves with mysterious grace. [Feb 2017, p.90]

Recent electric songs mix well with country ballads. [Aug 2015, p.98]

Certainly, the music here is very often brilliant. ... .Paak's tendency for juvenile and preening bad-boy bluster is a recurring weakness. [Feb 2019, p.84]

There's tear-in-the bear country, an angry field song, but the killer is Sorrow's shine. Classic Jim White. [Feb 2015, p.95]

In Through The Out Door is an honest album that makes Zeppelin sound (almost) human. But it hasn't aged well. [Sep 2015, p.98]

Though she occasionally loses focus Leila mostly pulls off this ambitious album and ends on a high note with 'Why Should I?' [Aug 2008, p.106]

The softer tracks find the group negotiating their path to maturity with confidence.

His third album, with its surprisingly upbeat title, makes good on the escalating promise of his previous releases. [May 2009, p.110]

Invitations rushes of feeling are rich and real. Filthy Friends are a genuine supergroup surprise. [Oct 2017, p.96]

Quality control dips during the last quarter, but this is a reassuring step forward. [Nov 2009, p.94]

What they bring to the table is a living, breathing sence of the organic. [June 2009, p.109]

The exuberance and delight in the newness and rightness of it all is captivating. [Jul 2009, p.107]

Dreamy and cacophonous. [Feb 2013, p.98]

Their third tribute set is exactingly detail-correct. [Dec 2013, p.90]

It's easy groove doesn't suggest exhaustion, just peace of mind. [Jan 2019, p.84]

To some he may always be Neil's boy, but Liam Finn is very much his own man. [Aug. 2011, p. 98]

Tobacco is more appealing when playing it straight. [Aug 2009, p.108]

Shulamith proves that intelligent pop music still has the ability to seduce and enthrall. [Dec 2013, p.86]

Some of it hisses and gurgles like early Future Sound Of London. [Oct 2003, p.118]

Cracknell's straight '60s pop ballads sit oddly, but a clubbable Shower Scene and well-electroclash Amateur and New Thing suggest more than a fiar outlook for the weathering well threesome. [Oct 2002, p.110]

Comes on like an evil Duran Duran making future music for damaged teens.... It's both disturbingly compelling and very, very wrong. [Jun 2003, p.112]

A scrapbook of tuneful, scattershot fragments. [Mar 2004, p.97]