While Time Skiffs sounds deeply, existentially scattered, every atom is in its rightful place. [Mar 2022, p.87]

Ever constructed around our hero's robust tenor and rattling acoustic, then adorned with A-grade orchestration, it inescapably evokes Urban Hymns. [Nov 2018, p.93]

An oddly seamless follow-up to its distant predecessor. [Nov 2005, p.110]

A many-moods piece for complicated times. [Mar 2021, p.85]

The 28 masters perfectly preserve the fight-or-flight cortisone power and tired, forlorn grandeur of late period Elvis. But it's the 27 outtakes that truly startle. [Nov 2013, p.98]

An undeniably enjoyable career-twilight collection. [Sep 2023, p.82]

Wrongtom's enthusiasm for collaboration is everywhere apparent on In East London's salute to the capital. [Nov 2012, p.94]

The hydra-like mix of music genres which FaltyDL has previously taken direction from has been refined into deep burnt, highly charged, twisted electronic soul. [Feb 2013, p.91]

The fourteenth Bad Seeds record is willfully untidy and, at times, pretty chaotic. It also rocks like crazy. [Apr 2008, p.104]

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

Musically, the influence of dubstep is readily apparent. [Dec. 2010, p. 99]

It's the skill of Tabor, the lyric interpreter, that is most telling and, predominately set around atmospheric piano and accordion arrangements, this deeply affecting collection of sea stories demonstrates the core of her art almost to perfection. [Mar 2011, p.108]

San Fran stalwart John Dwyer continues to deliver quality goo goo muck with his subterranean garage-psych combo. [Aug 2009, p.104]

Portland's college-rock heirs downsize with Peter Buck-featuring sixth album. [Feb. 2011, p. 106]

Don't be deceived: these songs have the substance to become - unlike those eBay purchases - an obsession that sticks. [Apr 2024, p.83]

Abetted by producer Photay's sharp editing skills and tactile sound design, KALAK's wildly careening spirituals up the ante with missionary glee and emotional intelligence, Korwar tapping into the diversity of the Indian diaspora via some of his most captivating, immediate and inventive compositions to date. Not for the first time, he's raised the bar. [Dec 2022, p.88]

It's an uncannily beautiful listening experience. [Oct 2021, p.92]

Contra is the sound of a band driving themselves to very satisfying extremes. [Feb 2010, p. 96]

[Leithauser] revels in letting his talent run free, outwith trad rock arrangements. [Jun 2014, p.92]

Icily cinematic, Arnalds has a widescreen future. [Dec 2020, p.85]

Warm, understated third LP. [Nov 2016, p.96]

The pair's debut creates an inviting somnambulant soundworld. [Jan 2021, p.85]

LP1 is a hugely self-possessed debut, the work of an artist whose vision--not only her visual sense--is strong. [Sep 2014, p.89]

The more chances Tears For Fears take, the more they thrive, and they take chances here: seems like a new album was a good idea after all. [Apr 2022, p.88]

Wormslayer feels like the band's most consistently corporeal record since the Britpop era's iconic K. [Mar 2026, p.83]

Few can match The Cribs for their facility with bruised melodies and crunchy dynamics, perfecting here a transatlantic noise that draws equally on Smithsian jangle (the jaunty Never The Same) and Sonic Youth squall (Dark Luck). [Mar 2026, p.86]

Sounding sharper than they have done in years, they’re more up for the fight than perhaps ever before.

Land Is Hell is alive with 21st century energy. [Oct 2013, p.96]