An album whose gentle charms fades a little before the final curtain falls. [Feb 2016, p.93]

The 2009 live comp shows how testing their sets can be, with long glitchy interludes between colourbursts of song. [Feb 2020, p.96]

Iommi occasionally apes Slayer's squealing solos, but otherwise this is vintage Sabbathian, slow-grind all the way. [Jul 2013, p.82]

The result are suitably soothing. [Mar 2016, p.95]

It buries some strong writing, singing and potential. [Aug 2012, p.96]

Turnbull readily unleashes his inner thespian but he's got playful pop-song chops, making A Hound At The Helm something of a post-modern glam trip that's far too good to be neglected a second time. [Jan 2015, p.94]

Questionable sequencing and some strange production choices (layers of synths and suffocating syntheric strings) sometimes make Jordan sound like a guest artist o her own album. [Jun 2026, p.86]

You're left with a record that few will better this year. [Oct 2011, p.101]

The more experimental efforts have a real impact. [Sep 2012, p.97]

Like most of ET's work, it's worth the wait. [Nov 2013, p.90]

Currie ceding power to him [producer Mike McCarthy] has worked a treat. [Nov 2013, p.90]

At just 23 minutes long this stop-gap album, but it's great to hear the fire in his belly once more. [Jan 2018, p.94]

The best moments come when the duo break out of their languid comfort zone, as on the breezy Feel Your Weight and dynamic Phoenix. [Mar 2018, p.90]

The core idea brings a bright focus and forward movement to their gummy, ambrosial stoner sound, adding bright melody and fairytale zing to these end-of-summer tales of beachbound escape and smalltown torpor. [Nov 2009, p.101]

It throws up its fair share of sunshine treats. ... Consumed in one siting though, the relentlessly Day-Glo vibes can get a little sickly. [Aug 2021, p.81]

Alegrias bends gems from his Byzantine catalogue into new shapes. [Jun 2011, p.97]

The disillusionment makes for downbeat and decidedly adult pop. [Feb 2014, p.88]

A few songs confirm her gifts....More often, self-satisfaction takes over and the final track's dull. [Nov 2008, p.108]

It's an uneven ride and not without longuers. [Nov 2011, p.93]

[The lyrics] carry every once of experience and writerly imagination he's learned and earned in 76 years. [Dec 2012, p.86]

Sadly, there's a few too many tunes like (Girl We Got A) Good Thing--the sort of throwaway preppy drivel critics of Weezer think they sound like all the time--for this to sit alongside the band's classic work. [May 2016, p.90]

White's devastation lends poignancy to tracks ... that skip with country celebration even as he chokes on the words. [Apr 2012, p.95]

A rare beacon of quality amid the shoddy posthumous rap parade. [Feb 2020, p.91]

The record comes on like a sweaty, amphetamine-fuelled rehearsal room bash that went extraordinarily well. [Oct 2006, p.102]

[A] sensual, endlessly inventive record. [Aug 2003, p.106]

The pair's lack of ambition might eventually grate but listen to this on your own on a rainy Sunday, with the thermostat set on 25 and its hallucinatory qualities might well invade your being.

Sewn Together is as winningly tuneful as it is raggedly charming. [Jul 2009, p.95]

Effortlessly inventive and still full of invective. [Apr 2012, p.88]