For Carry Fire, Plant has written Lion In Winter love songs. [Nov 2017, p.96]

One of the most compelling and stone-cold beautiful albums Simon has ever made. [Jul 2023, p.80]

Forget notions of old or new schools: this is an album that blends a kindergarten-level technique with styles that are strictly postgraduate. [Jun 2004, p.116]

Their pop peaks sound like an ecstatic communion of Mercury Rev, ELO and the cast of Hair. [Oct 2002, p.110]

If Yoshimi.... lacks the sheer shock value of Bulletin's panoramic delirium, its peak moments are enough to make it one of 2002's most rewarding releases. [Album of the Month, Aug 2002, p.92]

Negro Swan is more consolidation than the ext great leap forwards. [Oct 2018, p.91]

Forsyth's own voice is used sparingly ... Mostly, though, he lets the fervid lyricism of his guitar be the focus. [May 2019, p.88]

You can't pin them down, but there lies the joy. [Jun 2025, p.84]

[Illuminates] Nash's own cosmic poetry, crunching guitars and swooning pedal steel. [Dec 2015, p.94]

It is Crosby's stubbornly enduring voice--the will to live and create in that gift after he came so close to throwing it away--that binds the wonder and mission on For Free. [Aug 2021, p.81]

[Kozelek] has never sounded more inspired, achieving a rich balance of haunting atmosphere and twangy grit. [Feb 2004, p.101]

Gruff Rhys returns from his sabbatical to release another crush of blissed-out psychedelia, crunching beats, sun-kissed harmonies and topsy-turvy rhythms. And what a blast it is, too. [May 2009, p.96]

A spare, transient, restrained thing. Yet it's that restraint that ultimately defines its brilliance; the sound of a more confident, assured artist realising that it might be better to travel slowly than to arrive. [Dec 2025, p.86]

Dizzying stuff. [Apr 2026, p.91]

A band who aim foolishly high but always return, wings intact. [Sep 2004, p.92]

Urgent, retro-futurist and profoundly absorbing. [Jul 2020, p.84]

The album captivates wen his bad keeps pulling Freeman and his florid drawl back down to earth, the tension creating a form of transportive rural psychedelia. [Sep 2025, p.79]

Vernon continues to deal in emotionally heavy music operating on the cutting edge of tech. Everything ID Peaceful Love is the standout. [Jun 2025, p.87]

If "Street Horrsing" was a bit of a lark, then Tarot Sport plays an altogether more serious game. [Nov 2009, p.92]

Fugazi's signature edge duly emerges. [May 2020, p.86]

A lyrically rich and musically colourful set of songs which is as emotionally exhilarating as it is often rawly painful. [Nov 2025, p.88]

It's a damn good listen, all of it. Generous and revelatory, to borrow Rosanne's words, and at times mind-blowing. [Dec 2019, p.100]

It was a scratchy and sassy sound, funky and fun.

[An] irresistibly immersive fourth album. [Nov 2014, p.89]

These sings might inhabit unsteady mental states, but each component could have been places with tweezers and a jeweller's loupe. [Aug 2015, p.86]

An album of dark beauty and unnerving enchantment. [May 2016, p.93]

Delivering a deliciously unsettling and artful listening experience. [Sep 2021, p.83]

Deceptively simple, the result is a lovely thing. [Feb 2022, p.86]