You couldn't wish for a more fitting musical soundtrack to the rest of your 2014. [Nov 2014, p.96]

Atmospheric chromatic harmonica, swirling strings, shadowy woodwind and Bargeld's rich voice add up to an album demonstrating that black has many shades. [Jun 2016, p.95]

Overall this is vivid testimony to art's elevating power. [Apr 2018, p.102]

Been Around has heart, soul, a voice and tunes to die for, an early highlight of 2020. [Feb 2020, p.90]

All guns are still blazing, but slightly differently. [Mar 2023, p.86]

This edge, this acknowledgment of the stakes at play behind her messages of faith, pushes these songs past any risk of empty sentimentalism, and makes Sun Without The Heat truly uplifting. [May 2024, p.87]

It's an entirely cohesive record, brimming with energy, invention, humour, lived experience, nifty playing and earwormy melodies: all things that make up a great debut album. [Jul 2024, p.88]

["Fünf"] A finale that thrillingly manifests the Can legend – equal parts ascetic and visceral, a wondrous zone where the corporeally propulsive co-exists effortlessly with the cerebral. The preceding Eins to Vier really aren’t bad either. [Jan 2025, p.98]

This self-written, almost wholly self-played treasure trove of lavishly arranged widescreen epics owes as much to John Barry as John Grant. [Feb 2025, p.90]

Discreetly excellent comeback. [Apr 2025, p.87]

Anthology 4 offers another transporting parallel view into how The Beatles did what they did, from the pre-fame beginnings to the end and after. [Dec 2025, p.12]

Their latest band, captured on Live Forever in full electric flow. [Jun 2026, p.84]

[Francesco Turrisi's] accompaniments, often on old/unusual instruments, add a strange, delicate beauty to Giddens' solemn, powerful soprano. [Jun 2019, p.89]

Holmes is scrabbling throught he ashes of Vegas strip supper-club jazz to craft a decidedly 21st century soundtrack, mourning its passing while happily rifling its pockets. [Album of the Month, Feb 2002, p.90]

The result is laidback and chilled. [Apr 2003, p.104]

Nick Lowe has made the album of his career, a dozen stories of love and loss so beautifully simple that you'll never get to the bottom of them. [Nov 2001, p.12]

The short length and minimal production means Untitled Unmastered occasionally lacks the dynamics of Lamar’s previous work, but it remains an enthralling postscript to his masterpiece.

The urgency is tangible, as is the sense that while Simpson is smashing up genres as a rapid response to extreme times, he’s also landed on one of the best ideas of his increasingly remarkable career. Mutiny After Midnight doesn’t propose an escape from the now, it demands we confront it head-on, by being our most righteous and uninhibited selves. [Jun 2026, p.84]

There's nothing bland about this fervid, ideasy album. [Sep 2015, p.90]

A beguiling marriage of tradition and modernism. [May 2011, p.107]

It’s late summer sunshine in music form. [Dec 2024, p.93]

While synth stomp Full Of Fire circles the (twisted) dancefloor, the bias is for brave, immersive, and high-risk music. [May 2013, p.88]

Side by side in this unfamiliar setting, well-known songs become unsettling. [Oct 2017, p.104]

With a voice that perfectly balances grit and sugar, Daniel and band tread their indie/rock tightrope with flair. [Mar 2022, p.85]

It represents the singer's best work since the aforesaid "Urban Hang Suite." [Sep 2009, p.93]

The Window Is The Dream initially seems opaque, but keep looking through and all becomes beautifully clear. [May 2023, p.92]

The magic of DJ Koze lies in the unique complex musical terroir he's built. [May 2018, p.93]

It's the insular intimacy of Korkejian's songs, like Zephyrs whispered in your ear, that make this debut such a triumph. [Aug 2017, p.95]