An experimental, sensual collection of songs harking back to the days of the first Gorky's EPs. [Mar 2006, p.104]

With Songs Of A Lost World, The Cure, often seen as the soundtrack to an eternally doomy adolescence, might just be coming of age.

Throughout, you feel Homme's pain, but ultimately marvel at his ability to channel it into music so brutally uplifting. [Aug 2023, p.79]

It's pleasingly dizzying, yet curiously coherent. [Feb 2016, p.98]

Familial is an acoustically plucked, feet-on-the-ground record, Selway's fragile and inviting voice a delightful match for his slightly anxious, if misplaced, self-doubt. [Sep 2010, p.98]

Boy From Michigan is Grant in panoramic mode, looking back and looking forward to create his biggest picture yet. [Jul 2021, p.86]

It's Green's pitch-perfect delivery, his ability to switch from sublimely giddy pop joy to earnest moments of heartache and convince utterly in both instances, that make The Lady Killer a treasure. [Jan. 2011, p. 96]

Atmospheric chromatic harmonica, swirling strings, shadowy woodwind and Bargeld's rich voice add up to an album demonstrating that black has many shades. [Jun 2016, p.95]

The end result just about captures the riotous, magical bustle of their live shows, so seek it out. [Jun 2009, p.101]

Embryonic greatness, maybe, but still great. [Sep 2020, p.103]

The thread which binds is Merchant's seductive, bittersweet voice, something which quickly finds the richer you, than nourishes it. [Dec 2001, p.104]

Critically, Dark Matters evokes, rather than merely simulates, the band's hallmark quirk and strangeness, lending integrity to the ongoing endeavour. [Oct 2021, p.97]

Richly textured, panoramic celebration of the natural world. [Oct 2020, p.87]

A blissful escape from whatever ails you. [Feb 2023, p.89]

The result is charged and post-apocalyptic. [Oct 2019, p.90]

Milk For Flowers sound wide awake; gloriously alive. [Apr 2023, p.89]

Throughout, a world weariness and wisdom far beyond John Fullbright's 25 years. [Jul 2014, p.93]

Those who have grown up with him will find much to love here. [May 2004, p.90]

Lighten Up takes its sometimes melancholy frown, turns it upside down and delivers an infectious beam of musical sunshine. [Mar 2022, p.82]

Far from being a doomfest, the music is quite beautiful. [Oct 2005, p.114]

As The Murlocs wave their freak-flag high, the party raves on via the taut Southern rock riffage of Common Sense Civilian and Russian Roulette's rogue Farfisa. [Aug 2023, p.78]

Leonard's half-spoken, slow, dark blues growl is powerful. [Nov 2014, p.86]

John Talabot and Axel Boman share a rep for expressive, expansive rhythms aimed at forward-thinking dancefloors--music that can stand in its own right, away from the club. Thrust together, it's an approach that the Catalan/Swedish twosome maintain. [May 2017, p.91]

It feels both strangely timeless and oddly new. [May 2020, p.93]

Heartfelt and brilliantly executed, it's a creative peak. [Feb 2013, p.89]

The Messenger duly wipes the slate clean and bursts with the same efflorescent skills that made Johnny Marr a guitar hero for the generation which had supposedly repudiated such a concept. [Mar 2013, p.90]

This superb second album does indeed make a dramatic leap forward. [Mar 2014, p.90]

His latest sounds like the product of a much-needed rethink, bracketed by two cosmically speculating slowies: the opening, sparkling title track documents its author's self-fulfilling quest to mine a deeper instinctual creativity, while closer No Man's Land has a wide-eyed romanticism, evoking Mercury Rev. [May 2018, p.93]