It’s a truly gorgeous record, capturing the grand contrarian at his happiest, living in the present and reworking the past. [Nov 2024, p.89]

They're five albums in and they keep getting better and better. [Mar 2020, p.91]

These six new tracks flow neatly on from those recorded for Tche Belew 40 years before. [Mar 2018, p.95]

A return from the wilds. ... Some of the best vocal melodies Tabish has yet channelled. [Jun 2020, p.93]

Its 10 fuzzy, through-the-bottom-of-a-whiskey-glass intimacy, with Anthony's acoustic guitar and rich baritone voice conveying songs of existential wonder and lament. [Feb 2013, p.93]

This pan-generational Jones/Dap-Kings team have been injecting new vitality into a classic form since 2002, and the people will certainly want their strong new soul album. [Feb 2014, p.90]

It's his best original work by some yards. [Aug 2021, p.84]

This is warm, analogue-smudged R&B that blossoms with repeated plays. [Jun 2019, p.95]

There's a warmth to his rich, brown sugar baritone in stark contrast to the sharp shapes made by his keening, post-punk guitar. [Apr 2015, p.98]

Impossible Truth is an unusually articulate trip. [May 2013, p.85]

Arthur's delicious art is a potent, concentrated thing. [Oct 2004, p.96]

Bird escorts well-worn standards down unexpected alleyways. [Jul 2024, p.89]

This is haunting, atmospheric and intelligent introduction. [Jan 2012, p.99]

Gorgeous, enveloping music. [Dec 2020, p.80]

CLPPNG is the work of hip hop auteurs delivering the shock of the new. [Jul 2014, p.88]

Intriguing melodies, immersive arrangements and a haunting choral climax. [Nov 2016, p.96]

Cold yet compulsive. [Jun 2005, p.106]

The album burns brightly, like a widescreen musical travelogue. [Feb 2026, p.87]

There's a palpable connection to their country's dread history that allows Wolf People to transcend their music's fantasy elements, whiles still being properly fantastic. [Jan 2017, p.96]

This album feels like a reliable harbour. [Jun 2026, p.87]

A vast swirling dystopia of euphoric white noise. [Mar 2017, p.97]

[The EPs] bring together the best of both sides of Belle And Sebastian: the innocence and experience, if you will. [Feb 2018, p.92]

If life's what you make it, here Anderson makes it sound very beautiful indeed. [Dec 2023, p.92]

A profoundly sad and affecting collage of memory and longing, ghostly torch songs half-buried in the claustrophobic electronic clatter of the modern world. [May 2019, p.95]

Fantastic mix of rare jazz and soul, cut with contemporary electronic meditations from Sarah Davachi, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith and more. [Jun 2019, p.102]

An alleviating statement from an artist whose curiosity and striving fir development have remained a driving force. [Apr 2024, p.85]

It's themes may be familiar, but its fine, dazzlingly outlandish music is fresh and utterly fearless. [Nov 2009, p.88]

Overall: troubled, unflinching, but tuneful and triumphant. [May 2024, p.82]