There are points of similarity here with Kraftwerk, particularly on Clockwork, the electro and house styles of '8-s Cabaret Voltaire, the pumping bears if Front 242, and also the percolating sequencers of Favtory Floor. [Oct 2016, p.99]

One for the fans delighted he's still here and fascinated by how such classic songs started out. [Jan 2022, p.82]

No boundaries are being broken this around, but Living Colour still hold their own. [Jan 2010, p. 102]

Enjoy it before it all gets used in bank adverts. [May 2003, p.104]

The record's near-constant gloom and woolly arrangements are difficult to digest. [Feb 2004, p.99]

But once you settle into its desolate vista – and, believe me, it’ll take a few plays – 10,000 Hz Legend becomes just as addictive as its ancestor.

Hello Happiness is indeed groove heavy, but gives too little for a singer of Chaka's ability to, well, sing - which is a shame, because on the occasions she does find space to stretch out her soaring voice seems to have retained its strength, tone and power. [Mar 2019, p.96]

Josh conjures a light, affectless mood which quietly promises happiness without ever sliding into schmaltz. [May 2006, p.100]

Where her previous band, Williamburg's The Jealous Girlfiends, struggled to reconcile an awkward mix of styles, the vision on Miranda's solo debut is seemless. [Mar 2009, p.90]

In total, a pleasant, charm-filled release but no great addition to the Nelson canon. [Feb 2015, p.95]

There's often been a whiff of contrivance around the Avetts, but by coming of age they come up smelling of roses. [Aug 2016, p.92]

Odd, enjoyable. [Jun 2006, p.103]

Tobin's songs offer a more lucid warmth. [Jul 2014, p.96]

He and his guests have history, but the second half of Mountains might have benefited from fewer backing singers - however good, they over-egg the songs. [Sep 2023, p.86]

Closer listening finds thin-voiced New Yorker Andrew Wyatt undercutting the Swedish Britney Spears producers' sleek earworms with sing-along melancholy. [Apr 2016, p.96]

The result, unfortunately, is one of the dreariest hours you will even spend listening to music. [Aug 2009, p.100]

This is no holding exercise. Instead, think beautifully conceived curio. [Apr 2023, p.85]

Unfortunately, Sea Sew too often clunks along like its awkwardly punning title. [Jun 2009, p.1010]

The brooding Last Night On Earth places Ranaldo in a seductively meditative setting. [Dec 2013, p.88]

The Detroit budget-punks follow last year's eponymous art-scuzz by zinging through 12 anthemic amp-melters in 26 minutes. [Feb 2011, p.989]

It's a bloodless, disembodied album, rarely flushed with human warmth. [May 2013, p.94]

Too much of it passes by easily, leaving little lasting impression. [Aug 2005, p.101]

Be Your Own King is somewhat hobbled, though, by a flat, dense production from The Do's Dan Levy. [Mar 2013, p.89]

Has a first-person directness and grunge-schooled contrasting of melody with clamour. [Feb 2021, p.90]

Rarely has any modern band made The Difficult Third Album sound so breezy... [May 2001, p.96]

Promise Of The Real--ie, Willie Nelson’s son Lukas et al--prove superb foils for this sludge guitar god/master melody maker, hence the harmony-rich chorus of Already Great sounds exactly that immediately, and the horn-bolstered power-chords of resistance anthem Children Of Destiny are just breathtaking.

On Lysandre, his vision feels more expansive. [Feb 2013, p.88]

It's a creative fecund, primeval power. [Jul 2009, p.100]