The Talkies is a scarifying, perverse noise-rock treat. [Oct 2019, p.85]

Another songwriting masterclass. Again. [Dec 2025, p.78]

Low have made one of the most impressive albums of their career and it still feels like their best work is ahead of them rather than stuck back in the past. [Oct 2015, p.92]

Backed by an ace band... he's back in familiar territory. [May 2005, p.109]

The rage and weight of 2014's Blank Project has lifted but the explorations of life at every level--refugees in Calais; exhausted living under patriarchy; missing your parents--continue. [Nov 2018, p.89]

Demos have emerged from 1965-66, 1968 and 1973, but these 13 are the best yet. [Jan 2017, p.110]

44 minutes of scourging song broken up by ambient drone, terrifying din and choral interludes - is both uncompromising and brilliant. [Aug 2023, p.85]

Augustine's fourth is celestially good, his own fevered vision. [Aug 2023, p.78]

It takes its time luring listeners in. [Feb 2020, p.91]

Surely Relentless is how Chrissie Hynde always wanted the Pretenders to sound. [Oct 2023, p.79]

The Night Sweats' woozy, loose grooves are hypnotising and are perfect accompaniment to Rateliff's gravel-worn rasp. [Apr 2018, p.94]

He sounds shyer and less relaxed at the onset than on the 1968 archive At Canterbury House. [Jan 2014, p.112]

For all the grown-up entanglements and era-specific worries, it's championship-winning stuff. [Jul 2021, p.85]

Wildly imaginative music. [Jun 2017, p.92]

Loose Future positions Andrews between Waxahatchee and Angel Olsen, a triumvirate of singer-songwriters finding new alleyways in and out of familiar territory. These 10 absorbing songs, likewise, are testaments to remaining in motion. [Nov 2022, p.88]

The San Francisco pair Sic Alps present 22 concise numbers and commendably few lo-fi cliches. [Feb 2011, p.99]

Vibrates with a thrilling energy. [Jul 2019, p.94]

A modern soundtrack for city life--an aural survival pack that pulls out moments of delicate beauty from all the shit and cacophony. [Dec 2003, p.122]

There's nothing here to stop her rise. [Nov 2021, p.87]

These songs convey a sense of the work put into them, a sense of the world outside, but that doesn't undermine Big Thief's ability to lock in on something profound. [Oct 2025, p.78]

Coming Home has a timeless quality. [Jul 2015, p.87]

Four albums in and their metronomic nursery rhymes are still capable of delivering pop thrills. [June 2010, p. 104]

The four tracks on which they collaborate are timely reminders of The Stooges' initial impact and their ongoing influence. [Oct 2003, p.106]

With its captivating melodies and sci-fi charm, News Of The Universe is as poignant as it is hopeful. [Jul 2024, p.88]

A couple of cracking originals of his own and beautiful production. You have to doff your cap. [Oct 2017, p.95]

Manzanita mostly shimmers obliquely with light and spells. [Apr 2023, p.90]

This London quartet's third LP avoids indie cliche, taking various routes to achieve electro-pop lift-off. [Oct 2018, p.94]

Moves from a first LP of monumental pinguid hypo-groovers to a second of fried-amp creepy-crawl sludge and crude-oil ghost harmonics. [Dec 2021, p.86]