If you're mad enough to be planning a Breaking Bad-themed barbecue you've just found the perfect soundtrack. [Sep 2016, p.90]

Blends Shimmery psych guitar, spacey grooves and indie-falsetto vocals. [Sep 2018, p.96]

[Their] irony is especially trying when it infects the music. [Jul 2006, p.110]

Suffers from a paucity of premium standalone songs.... way too relentlessly generic. [Mar 2004, p.101]

Their star power indeed might be largely borrowed, but they wear it well. [Nov 2014, p.98]

Nothing here feels contrived. Instead we witness a rare thing: an inherently youthful band gracefully making good into their thirties. [Apr 2011, p.106]

The scale of the latter achievements suggest Kasabian and 48:13 will get by nicely with their existing fanbase. Whether this means many new converts is less certain. [Jul 2014, p.87]

Toriphiles will be delighted to find a generous 76 minutes of songstuff here but the less committed might never get past the veritable encyclopedia of tortured vocal affections that blight the stodgy opening track. [Jun 2009, p.102]

London's Yuck offer scrubbed-up take on the FX-drenched guitar pop of Pavement or MBV. [Apr 2016, p.96]

Their forte remains unashamed headbanger action. [Nov 2006, p.114]

This 17-track colossus is eclectic, ambitious ad expertly executed. [Nov 2011, p.103]

The third choice record from McIntyre in as many years. [Aug 2004, p.99]

He's at his best when making compulsive, synthetic house anthems. [Mar 2006, p.106]

The thread that binds is Tyler's enduringly impressive voice. [Sep 2016, p.95]

The overhaul, surely, needed to be much more far-reaching. [Mar 2014, p.88]

In this 30-track collection marks Snow Patrol as a band backed with some serious songwriting heft.

Where her self-titled debut was intense and socially conscious, things are groovier now. [May 2011, p.107]

Anyone turned off by conspiracy theories may shudder, but allow Brown his free-your-mind gnostic-in-designer-streetwear stance and entertainment wins out. [Mar 2019, p.88]

If you crave that ineffable something Abba achieved, then it's only glimpsed here. [Jun 2013, p.84]

A big, bold, brazen statement, epic in places, charmingly flawed in others. [Sep 2002, p.110]

This sounds like a decent Gang Star LP--no bad thing, but it lacks the spark of individuality. [May 2004, p.103]

Mostly it looks like there's a new kid in town. [Dec 2007, p.98]

Bare bones it may be, but it's still recognizably David Gray. [Sept. 2010, p. 102]

Warble Womb offers those addled young whipper-snappers a timely masterclass in how to keep the right balance between relentlessness and variation. [Nov 2013, p.86]

The Making Of is a decent debut. [Nov 2015, p.87]

(I)NC's pop-punky take on early Deep Purple-ish blues-rock is elegantly streamlined by Rubin's lucid production. [Sep 2004, p.104]

While the boisterousness that made 2006 single Chelsea Dagger so welcome on the terraces of Stamford Bridge is successfully repurposed on Baby Don't You Lie To Me! and Too Much Wine, and Thief motors like Lady Madonna on Stevie's Higher Ground, other fruits of this reunion with producer Tony Hoffer--see the mellotron-mangled Rosanna--soon sour. [Sep 2015, p.94]

Something about Jet doesn't quite ring true. [Dec 2006, p.106]