Were every song as great as I'm Free, Blue Skies and Call Me Faithful, this would be a classic too. [Jun 2014, p.94]

Her second album doesn't up the merriment ante much. [May 2015, p.93]

They impress with a neo-Romanticism rather than basic rabble-rousing. [Sep 2016, p.99]

Languid piano, sleazy Rickenbacker, intellectual Lothario. Lethal. [Oct 2016, p.96]

While a little slavish in worship of her influences, these seven icy near-instrumentals conjure a gripping imaginary thriller in the mind, their glacial electronic melodies underpinned by taut rhythms. [Jun 2018, p.89]

There's a cosmic/romantic wisdom to highlight One Way Or Another and Two Dreamers' sunshine classicism. [Sep 2019, p.96]

It's an engrossing set with nine reflective soundscapes. [Nov 2019, p.89]

May is less successful on the rockers - not so much through lack of "oomph" or authenticity, but because the songs aren't great. ... Way more subtle, convincing, and apparently deeply felt are the tumbling country soul of Different Kinds Of Love and the lovely Dusty In Memphis vibes of Diamonds. [May 2021, p.80]

The DLO3 serve up a decidedly old school-sounding platter whose feel-good vibe is infectious. [Mar 2022, p.86]

They're all done pretty straight, but then of course eh throws in his trademark "more is More" soloing, all Bluesbreakers-to-Cream-era Eric Clapton-style muscle and intensity. [Nov 2023, p.93]

Ultimately, Innerstanding finds Harrison marking out his own territory, sustaining a brooding musical atmosphere and filling it with sterling melodies. [Jan 2024, p.88]

It's a steady, comforting blast of warmth, from the Jon Hopkins-Style soft techno pulse of Soft Gradient beckons to Nocturne's ambient swell. [Aug 2025, p.79]

Lots here is clever and fun, and maybe Oh Snap is an album she needed to make, but heard end to end it's a bumpy ride. [Nov 2025, p.86]

There is much melancholy here, but he sounds comfortable singing songs that carry the weight of experience. [Oct 2013, p.87]

This pared back approach, which lends parts of the record a "dancier" vibe, may not suit all fans of his singular debut. [Jul 2013, p.85]

Blissed-out analogue synths, the swell and drone of ambient rock and epic, beatless, drawn-out melodies characterize the debut. [Aug. 2011, p. 104]

In all, more a series of disconnected building blocks than a cohesive album. [Nov 20, p.89]

They sound joyous even when they're miserable. [Oct 2006, p.96]

Some of the lyrics, translated from the Dutch, are a touch clunky, but all in all a lively set and not, I suspect, Bishop Burke's final memorial. [Feb 2011, p.100]

Trouble Anyway is a much more fleshed-out, even lush proposition [than her 2016 debut, Out Of Love]. [Jan 2019, p.90]

With one million sales, the French quartet can be forgiven for not messing with the formula here. [May 2013, p.86]

Piano and guitars soar vertiginously; lyrics are bittersweet or pleasingly surreal. [Apr 2013, p.98]

sometimes the going gets a mite too easy, too laid back. But there are several memorable teamings. [Nov 2013, p.91]

On the whole, they succeed by taking a careful layered approach. [Mar 2014, p.100]

There's a pleasing, ad hoc nature to these loose-limbed grooves. [Mar 2016, p.97]

Gogol Bordello's passport-abusing, transcontinental musical journeying occasionally feels like being faced with an over-ambitious tapas plate. [Oct 2017, p.96]

There, is, alas, something much more formulaic sounding about All That I have Left, but for at least 42 of its 46 minutes, Islands is an invigorating place to be marooned. [Jun 2018, p.94]

Symbols of hope still gatecrash his bruised world. [Dec 2020, p.80]