Often you wonder exactly what you're hearing; you just know you haven't heard it before. [Aug 2020, p.87]

Unfidelity exhibits sonic DNA from all corners of pioneering electronica. [May 2014, p.93]

Much of the rest is background music of a high standard and, although shorn of imagery and narrative, has an existential heaviness Camus would appreciate. [Jun 2015, p.86]

MacNeil is certainly a stronger singer--though without the coarse and charismatic Carter there's a sense that they are now one punk band among many, albeit still more sonically violent than most. {Oct 2012, p.86]

The first half rifles through their familiar bag of production tricks. .. The weirder and more diverse second side is where stuff gets interesting. [May 2021, p.81]

They're still best when the basic Paco Pena influences surface. [Feb 2012, p.94]

Their third album is more highly evolved than what normally constitutes straight up good-time rock. [Feb 2009, p.105]

Though mostly a one-man affair, he covers a lot of ground across the album's 11 tracks. [Jun 2015, p.86]

Makes you smile without even really listening because the whole sound is such a cheering mix of grunt and grin. [May 2004, p.104]

The result is a low-key mist of strings, piano, percussion and electronics. [Jun 2012, p.87]

Annoyingly, [the] high marks are all too infrequent. [Oct 2004, p.116]

A preposterous, highly-entertaining return. [Apr 2005, p.104]

Though it's certainly refreshing after the murk of 2002's Evil Heat, the results are still variable. [Jul 2006, p.104]

[Unfinished Business captures her vigour and verve] with its rough'n'tumble mix of R&B, country and rockabilly. [Dec 2012, p.90]

There's enough to pique interest for newbies. The rest of us will head on back to the master. [Sep 2011, p.99]

Not yet a strength, lyrics probe the border between naive and trite. [Feb 2012, p.94]

Knopfler retains his latter-years Celty-folk musical tone, with that measured guitar flicking in a sun-through-misty-woods way. This doesn't make for memorably distinctive songs, but his storytelling sharpens almost every track. [Apr 2015, p.91]

They're more likely to be judged on face value, but that shouldn't do them any harm. [Sep 2009, p.95]

Given the right mood and lighting, it is almost magical; in stark sunshine, less so. [Jun 2011, p.100]

An album that plays too safe in its thirst for hits. [Jul 2015, p.110]

The intervening nine songs jump between genres with varied success, with a fee whimsical tracks sticking out like sore thumbs. [Oct 2018, p.88]

The Bridge is Sting at his most-Sting like. [Jan 2022, p.82]

Anyone with a dog-eared Thick As A brick or A Passion Play album will be familiar with the rich brew of prog, folk, metal and whimsy he has served here. [Jun 2014, p.95]

Mahal and Cooder are giving back here like so often before. [May 2022, p.92]

He's at his best, however, when he takes it all very seriously indeed. [Feb 2017, p.96]

Understated, lovely. [Feb 2017, p.98]

A girl on fire? Now and then--and inbetween times, she smoulders as well as ever. [Jan 2013, p.95]

It's a mixed bag. ... Until Hot Chip's mothership heaves back into view, Taylor's emotive, immersive solo output will tide things over nicely. [May 2018, p.93]