Hanna's sub-Kevin Shields guitars and Chikudate's sparkling keyboards eddy across the Blondie-esque layers. [Feb 2009, p.113]

What Turner lacks in lyrical bravura he makes up with arena sized melodic hooks. [Sep 2015, p.95]

Truly devoted fans will certainly savour such standouts as the glistening, blissed-out "Ballad In Urgency" and feel-good bluegrass nugget "Downtown Money Waster," but less patient Crowe-watchers may find this a rather long, just occasionally indulgent goodbye. [Sep 2010, p.98]

Alice still makes Marilyn Manson sound like Mickey Mouse. {Sep 2008, p.112]

[Prey] and the sprawling jazz'n'world beats suite of Magpie Music prove that there's still life left in DJ Food. [Feb 2012, p.98]

Apart from misplacing the detonator for Iggy's Search & Destroy and a version of Neil Young's Rockin' In The Free World that lacks the original's purple-faced fury, Can't Get Enough is the sound of men enjoying the music. [Sep 2013, p.86]

Mick Jones's production captures a vibrant, timeless analogue vibe, particularly on the sister's sassy numbers. [Mar 2015, p.97]

A more structured back to basics approach really works for them. [Sep 2018, p.94]

Comes with the smart lightness of touch that's the Vampire Weekend birthright. [Mar 2021, p.89]

Here, for the first time in years, the primetime Gallagher swagger is back, in a more mature form. [Nov 2011, p.94]

There is improvement in the songwriting....But halfway through you might well weary at the album's unrelenting, full-bodied tone. [Nov 2012, p.91]

A meditative, inward-looking affair, Freeze, Melt is best heard after a big night in. [Sep 2020, p.91]

Superior crumbs from the captain's table, they will make completists weep. [Aug 2013, p.104]

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

All told, less might have been more. [Apr 2016, p.96]

A tentative return at best. [Dec 2014, p.89]

He can make a sweet music, as on the soulful warble of 'Georgia,' but on most of the other occasions when Votolato's choppy riffs and off-beam melodies threaten to seduce you, Whitney's caterwaul butts in again. [Sep 2008, p.110]

The identity-crisis themed Camp trumps through whip-smart intelligence, comic brio and bristling malign intent. [Jan 2012, p.90]

Windsor For The Derby have finally planed away the rough edges from their music. [Dec 2002, p.110]

Revives the windswept drama of Porcupine-vintage Echo & The Bunnymen. [Dec 2004, p.99]

Pared-down twinkly electronic pop with arcane instruments alloyed to laptop smarts that chills as it enchants. [Oct 2013, p.98]

At root, it's a heart-warming little curio. [Jul 2014, p.86]

News From Nowhere boosts the levels of electronic warmth, Buttery's unassuming presence adding an extra level of lushness rather than dominating events. [Mar 2013, p.90]

It's no great leap forward, but it's a decent return on the band's early promise. [Oct 2011, p.105]

Dry The River's contradictions result in an almost too-unified second release. [Sep 2014, p.98]

Anyone possessing their previous output will find little in the way of reinvention. [Oct 2006, p.96]

Twelve of the songs here are vintage, unheeded warnings plucked from Ono's catalogue. The finale is Imagine--which now rightly bears a Yoko co-credit. All is transformed by the sparse new arrangements, mostly piano-led with strings, which bring the horrors--and occasionally the hope--closer to home. [Nov 2018, p.94]

This is charming. And uplifting. Happy-sad but impossibly soothing. [Nov 2011, p.92]