As ever, McClure's everyman persona is the hook that draws you in. [Jul 2012, p.85]

Hymns resembles a settling breath. [Feb 2016, p.94]

It's largely stripped of their loftier excesses. Instead, the tone - meditative, inward-looking - coalesces around Circle Of Trust's tender electro, Ride Or Die's minimal escapist lullaby or the tech-U2 of She Cries Diamond Rain. [Jun 2025, p.80]

It finds the band stranded in the middle-of-the-road, spinning its wheels amid a mass of musical cliches and Dave Pirner's overwrought lyricism. [Aug 2006, p.104]

Former soul-punks return with rough edges removed and hearts on sleeves. [Feb. 2011, p. 99]

[The album] lacks anything distinctively their own. [Dec 2012, p.96]

If pulverizing female vocals and pop-rock guitar licks were your thing in 1995, you certainly won't be disappointed now. [Oct 2012, p.96]

Best consumed in small doses. [Aug 2018, p.91]

This isn't Air, but something quirkier. [Jan 2007, p.106]

This one's got a whiff of the Stones' Black And Blue about it. [May 2006, p.98]

Periodically dormant they may be, but it's clearly a tactic that works for Jane's. [Nov 2011, p.93]

The influences here are smart, the music smarter. [Feb 2007, p.100]

Music For The People is a record that brims with weighty ambition. [April 2009]

This is very much sitting-in-the-pub-moaning music. [Dec 2014, p.98]

Editors' fourth retains their customary grandeur and gloom, but with a new immediacy and surety, as Tom Smith matures into a truly commanding frontman. [Aug 2013, p.86]

There's got to be something better, man. [July 2002, p.94]

Textured electronica and crafted melodies make for a dense and absorbing effort. [Aug 2014, p.96]

She seems to have a sound that needs more sophisticated compositions. [Nov 2004, p.95]

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

This lot, however, aim for anthems, armed with zero melody. [Apr 2011, p.100]

The actual tunes may not be particularly strong, but crucially, at the centre of it all Natalie croons and sighs with all the clear-eyed moonfaced sweetness of Juliette Binoche baking cakes. [Dec 2001, p.116]

P.O.D. have evolved into one of the more inventive bands among metal's dimwitted hierarchy. [Dec 2003, p.112]

While retaining the melodic approach of his debut, the singer-guitarist has shaped some additional, more diverse sounds. [Dec 2012, p.88]

Those who liked the first two albums will be pleased to hear the Deep Purple-esque, brazenly '60s organ-rock sounds and indian religious refernces still firmly in place. [Sep 2007, p.104]

All serious stuff--but it never quite sounds that way because the Levs provide rugged anthems for crowd consumption. [Sep 2008, p.111]

A poisoned chalice, indeed. [Apr 2012, p.89]

A wry, gently nostalgic affair recalling lives lived. [Jun 2013, p.95]

An homage to Memphis soul and R&B that initially seems a pleasant lark but grows blander and more characterless the more it is heard. [Apr 2002, p.106]