Electric Dirt, as implied, is a continuation of "Dirt Farmer's" themes, packing a sharper jolt. [Jul 2009, p.94]

It flits between rigorous, tricksy composition and kinetic improv. [May 2021, p.78]

Both energy and melodies hold strong throughout, and, suitably topped off with Ballad Of Mott-style self-chronicling finale Born Innocent, Redd Kross is these Angelenos’ defining epic. [Aug 2024, p.86]

Surely the sweetly sour bubblegum album of 2015. [Sep 2015, p.86]

Before The Dawn is glorious and confounding--in other words, pure Kate. [Jan 2017, p.96]

A beautiful, comforting lament. [Nov 2019, p.95]

The self-analysis is elevated by Chatten's scowling poetry and producer Dan Carey's bright detailing. [Aug 2023, p.80]

Well after its final note fades, Islands lingers long in the memory. [Oct 2014, p.93]

An album whose wider appeal reaches for powerpop nirvana. [May 2015, p.98]

A densely orchestrated album that, even by his standards, is full of reflective melancholy. [Dec 2017, p.90]

A fourth album of brisk Saharan grooves, heavy jamming and trance percussion. [May 2018, p.98]

To most ears, this late-night, whipcrack-sharp chooglathon, finally unveiled, sounds astounding. What were they like on a good night? [Sep 2019, p.107]

It's not gloom and vitriol, it's gorgeous. [Nov 2020, p.83]

Throughout, a recurring Satie-like piano motif floats in and out, soothing the raw emotions. [Apr 2021, p.83]

While it lacks the hostility of its role model or its strident central voice, there's intrigue aplenty. [May 2023, p.84]

A triumph of healing and connection, experimentalism balanced out by emotional heft. [Nov 2023, p.89]

A glorious convergence of talents. [Sep 2024, p.92]

From Terry Edwards’ dysregulated trumpet on Always A Stranger to the wheezy strings of The Secret Of Breathing, Soft Tissue is a magnificent reminder that few people know better how to arrange life’s broken pieces, how to orchestrate the chaos. [Oct 2024, p.84]

One tiny complaint: the original tapes were intended as complete listening experiences, immersive acts of prayer with transportive qualities of a religious or psychedelic experience. For the time being, this is just a taste of the full bewitching trip. [Jun 2017, p.102]

Love's Crushing Diamond is restful, woven, baroque. [Feb 2014, p.89]

Altogether, a bold and beautiful record. [Sep 2025, p.78]

The rehearsal-room feel of Mwng succeeds in capturing the organic, woody, mystical atmosphere that was sometimes missing from its highly-polished, heavily-digitised predecessors.

This time [COF] have tempered their voluminous superfuzz with scenic bliss. [Oct 2004, p.101]

Not only the bravest record she's ever made, it's also one of the strangest and most uncompromising by a major artist to get a commercial release. [Sep 2004, p.93]

Delicate yet powerful, and utterly compelling. [Feb 2023, p.92]

Has a spare, homespun feel with its simple folk guitar. [Sep 2023, p.82]

The brothers have recorded an album that goes to the heart of who they are. [Jul 2026, p.80]

For all these disturbances, this grappling with difficult stuff of life and death, there is lovely, graceful ease to The Ballad Of Darren. This isn't the sound of a band trying to react against their past, or challenge their Britpop audience with US noise, or justify their existence - it's Blur simply showing what they do best. [Sep 2023, p.80]