There's a sense of going too far, of antic hilarity tipping into something more revealing. [Apr 2007, p.104]

Hopelessness sees Anohni take a harder radical line--her rich, red velvet voice set not in the pastoral piano landscapes of lauded past albums, but in the contemporary electronic stylings of two producers: Glasgow DJ Hundson Mohawke and his Warp label contemporary, Brooklyn's Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never. [Jun 2016, p.89]

The result is one of her most wide-ranging and satisfying collections. [Nov 2014, p.93]

As musical hybrids go, it's a fascinating and highly addictive one. [May 2012, p.93]

This is the desert-blues album for fans of Can and Pink Floyd to sink their teeth into. [Nov 2013, p.91]

Thankfully, frequent shards of light lift the gloom and raise the spirits. [Mar 2014, p.95]

Some of the catchiest Deadbeats tunes to date. [Jan 2019, p.92]

Short but definitely sweet. [Aug 2024, p.94]

You emerge rooting for Nicholson on every count. [Sep 2024, p.91]

It’s brilliant, moving stuff, and if this were to be David Gilmour’s final record, it’s certainly the best of his solo career. [Oct 2024, p.80]

Booker has relocated to a more contemporary - and sonically speaking, far more interesting - place here. [Feb 2025, p.82]

This time, the quieter moments are more keenly affecting. [Jan 2020, p.89]

Beautiful stuff. More, please. [Apr 2020, p.89]

The vigorous, often zippy arrangements finessed at guitarist Jonathan Pearce's Auckland home studio offer chipper contrast to the subject matter, Stokes a thoughtful, knowing presence. [Oct 2022, p.89]

It's an irresistibly modern mix. [Dec 2018, p.89]

A brilliant second album unembarrassed about building on the strengths of the first, delivering 13 knockout tunes betraying not an ounce of flab or self-indulgence. [Nov 2005, p.94]

It's numinous stuff. [Jun 2020, p.95]

Epic, lyrical, and as ultimately old-fashioned as those words suggest. [Oct 2003, p.106]

Highlights include the Earth, Wind & Fire-esque horns and harmonies of The Lewis Connection's Got To Be Something Here and tracks by Flyte Tyme, whose singer Cynthia Johnson left for Lipps Inc and Funkytown one-hit-wonderdom, but who on this evidence clearly deserved much better, [Jan 2014. p.108]

It's an artful and lyrically dense synth-pop LP. [Mar 2016, p.96]

Infectious, propulsive, unselfconscious, The Dodos are good enough to keep such company [as Brian Eno or David Byrne]. [Aug 2008, p.106]

It was uniquely visionary--primordially rockin', yet titled defiantly at the stars. [Dec 2012, p.101]

Their anarchic spirit is captured over the original LP's 11 tracks. [Sep 2015, p.92]

Sets a high bar. But she clears it, with soulful, oddball, Jersey-girl-in-Nashville aplomb. [Sep 2017, p.96]

Woodland Echoes is an unhurried album full of paeans to passion and nature. [Sep 2017, p.94]

A second album that's brimming with pop hooks and instantly memorable choruses. [Apr 2018, p.96]

Here If You Listen is never less than gorgeously meditative, and in its cloudy, impressionistic swell bobs flotsam of unusual beauty. [Dec 2018, p.88]

Less electronic in feel than its predecessor, this is music on a truly human scale in terms of its inspiration, delivery and undeniable emotional punch. [Mar 2019, p.97]