An undeniably enjoyable career-twilight collection. [Sep 2023, p.82]

Jamaica Queen;s potty-mouth hits rap home run on brutally enjoyable debut. [Feb. 2011, p. 105]

Imaginative, derivative and warped. [Nov 2016, p.93]

An album of miasmic, trippy electro-pop, heavy krautrock rhythms and sinuous digital funk. [Sep 2017, p.93]

The kind of space-occupying Krautrock klang that suddenly fills you with the urge to set up an underground magazine and get the brown rice ready for dinner. [Jan 2018, p.88]

Politically astute, philosophical and profound, Ty's comeback is a tad too long, but only because he cares. [Apr 2018, p.92]

The odd sappy lyric is mediated by a resonant Jim James-ish baritone. [Oct 2020, p.94]

The results are patchy. [Sep 2017, p.92]

Rocks and then rocks harder, launching wave after wave of vicious punk hooks. [Jul 2005, p.106]

The duo's valiant attempt to circumvent the buzz-kill of pre-meditation can only take them so far, however, and Arthur Buck is not without the odd dud. [Jul 2018, p.89]

This 18-song miscellany reminds us that talent loves the company of talent, one-off duets with Ray Charles and Dolly Parton underlining Jones's seemingly effortless ascent to premier league status. [Jan. 2011, p. 97]

Results vary, froma plodding, Kasbian-like 'Deeripper' to the charmingly labyrinthine 'Headdress,' which is so fresh it feels like the genuine article. [Jul 2009, p.96]

Occasionally self-indulgence threatens, but no matter; there is an undeniable musical hunger and pioneering spirit at work here. [Apr 2006, p.101]

A bold step forward. [Nov 2011, p.98]

The melodies are so lush and the arrangements so stylish that you can't deny them. [Jun 2005, p.105]

There are a few weak links... but there's a melodic buoyancy here. [Mar 2005, p.106]

Straight and true, without a trace of rear-view-mirror sentimentality. [Nov 2014, p.92]

Most of the songs are observations from an emotional distance. [Jun 2018, p.96]

Breathtaking moments, brilliant tunes, and Breakdown, a genuinely Beatles-league pop hit. [Nov 2004, p.114]

They're a group that believes in a thing called love. Happily, however, they don't believe in a thing called restraint. [Dec 2005, p.98]

Joni Mitchell's voice these days is as complex and adult as bourbon whiskey. [Dec 2002, p.116]

An amibitious record. [Dec 2003, p.113]

This is an enthusiastic hymn to the terminally uncool. [May 2004, p.106]

North radiates a humanity that wasn't altogether apparent on, say, The Juliet Letters or When I Was Cruel. [Oct 2003, p.104]

[A] moving tribute, gently awash with autumnal colour. [May 2013, p.96]

There's little original in the likes of 'Psychosocial' 'Snuff' or "All Hope is Gone,' but the bludgeoning guitars are crisp, the overload of percussion suitably crunchy and a sense of bravura and commitment that's lacking in many of today's metal bands runs throughout. [Nov 2008, p.118]

The vocals are mostly too downmix, the lyrics too inaudible or too banal. [Apr 2011, p.101]

There's taut New Wave (Tiny Moves; Jesus Is Dead), but mainly moody electronic balladry (think Streets Of Philadelphia), with Del Rey turning up to fulfil the intend of her one repeated line ("I'll make it darker") on Alma Mater. [Jun 2024, p.82]