This is searching, quietly profound stuff. [Jun 2023, p.90]

Pure Comedy is quite some trip and one that lifts Father John Misty to another level altogether. [May 2017, p.93]

Sparer but equally powerful record [to U.F.O.F.]. [Nov 2019, p.90]

It's packed tight with wayward ideas. [Jul 2021, p.89]

It is Newsom's voice that provides the stunning balm to bind this strange beauty together. [Dec 2006, p.118]

A debut album of psychedelic gospel-tinged gems. [Mar 2013, p.94]

Full of understated elegance, Ode reminds us that Mehldau's is an increasingly significant body of work. [May 2012, p.82]

Heavyweight and sodden like the starry mills of Satan. [May 2012, p. 103]

Derretirse displays a consistent fondness for gauzy shimmer and hypnagogic atmospherics. [Aug 2019, p.93]

It's another sonically sumptuous milestone for the Northern Irish composer/producer. [May 2021, p.87]

It's the melodic strength of its 15 "proper" songs that's the real mindblower. [May 2021, p.81]

It's bracing, intense stuff, though the bleak wit that runs through Morris's proclamations and Dimitri Coats' brawny riffage ensures the earache is addictive. [Dec 2022, p.90]

There’s only one moment when the production distracts from the players, a brief yet clunky guitar overdub on Arajghiyine. Listeners who love a wide soundstage, however, with well-separated guitars coming at you from all angles, will be in heaven. Thankfully, the guests shun the spotlight, leaving Ibrahim, Alhassane Ag Touhami and Abdallah Ag Alhousseyni to concentrate on that elusive sound, the guitars cleaner and crisper than those that introduced Tinariwen to the world 20 years ago. [Jun 2023, p.82]

It possesses a charm and innocence that's genuinely disarming. [Oct 2023, p.88]

The fistful of Memento Mori tracks - especially the slow building Speak To Me - confirm what a strong, brooding album it was, but they're rattled off early in the set, leaving a glorious cavalcade of (mostly) hits for the second half. [Feb 2026, p.81]

Dacus finds the pages of her diary she just can't shake, turning them into songs that are destined to stay with you, too. [Jul 2021, p.78]

It's heavy stuff, but reliably gorgeous musically. [Nov 2022, p.82]

Truly, a glorious noise. [Nov 2003, p.128]

The idiosyncrasies of her voice are showcased to full effect in soul showstopper Call Me A Fool, with dramatic rasping and swooping that some might find off-putting, but which undeniably underlines her distinctive character. There's a delicacy too. [Apr 2021, p.80]

Gave In Rest is melancholy yet beautiful, slow spectral low-end devotional music: creating a complete world that calls for total immersion. [Nov 2018, p.91]

This is a mellifluous and hook-laden, brimming with Russell's quotidian snapshot lyrics. [Jan 2020, p.99]

Much warmer and more inviting [than 2017's Pleasure]. [May 2023, p.88]

It's also the group's most exciting, most engaged, most breathtaking album this century. [Mar 2023, p.85]

It's vintage Boards Of Canada--a beautiful, shimmering, electronic maelstrom of liquid, vintage synths and slo-mo beats. [Jul 2013, p.82]

Impressive--and then some. [Sep 2015, p.86]

While keyboardist Vijay Iyer and bassist/Moog player Shahzad Ismaily summon a succession of iridescent, jazz-ambient drones and stimulating pianistic inventions, the compelling centre here is always Aftab's extraordinary voice, a thing of languorously modulating beauty. [May 2023, p.84]

Sundown is both a bigger sounding LP than Pleasure, Joy And Happiness but also a deeper one. [May 2023, p.91]

Strange Mercy is the shimmering, expansive sound of an artist defiantly coming into her own. [Oct 2011, p.104]