Any band that can record something as impressive as the gently swelling Radiation deserves to be taken on their own merits. Even Elbow may have to doff their hats this time. [Sep 2010, p.106]

Sun-scorched Californian jams. [Dec 2023, p.87]

Above all it rocks. A hooky, memorable album. [May 2012, p.87]

An enthralling step on her musical journey. [Aug 2021, p.83]

Weather is so deftly under-produced that you turn it up; so hazy and intimate you're drawn in close. [Jan 2012, p.98]

All American Made maintains Price's status as honky-tonk's most compelling new flame. [Nov 2017, p.97]

Nino Rojo is no mere best-of-the-rest affair, but a sibling piece of equal intimacy and inspiration. [Oct 2004, p.102]

A synth-heavy, sci-fi opus that hits its celestial climax on 10-minute standout Space Oddity. [Dec 2020, p.89]

Vibes, instrumental and psychic, are crucial to Angeles' reverberant keys or redemptive LP coda, Pigs. [Apr 2021, p.88]

Hellswinter refrains from overdosing on distortion before the title track's 20 minutes of funereal beauty. [Mar 2011, p.99]

Funky, playful but sinister like the best children's stories. [Jun 2005, p.98]

[A] collection of pithy two-minute lo-fi soundtracks. [Feb 2018, p.97]

Football Money is breezy and concise--10 songs, 28 minutes--but generously ladled with charm. [Feb 2020, p.86]

Following 2009’s ‘re-enactment’ shows, here, finally, is this fabulous, full-blooded seventh LP. Aficionados will be punching the air within the first minute of opener Hide & Seek: it’s all there. [Oct 2024, p.82]

The results are largely sublime. [Aug 2017, p.91]

A resounding and concise restatement of core values. [Jun 2020, p.93]

While traces of Deacon's former giddiness punctuate America, there's an ambitiously hefty, almost John Doe Passos-like engagement with the ambiguities of the Land of the Free. [Sep 2012, p.88]

Without sounding like a faintheart, it comes as a relief that this album features a crop of high quality songs and instrumentals playing with dazzling finger-picking. [Mar 2017, p.90]

This one is a real keeper. [Mar 2020, p.86]

Like its closest Amos siblings, Scarlet Walk (2002) and American Doll Posse (2007, it's far from immediate, but the delayed gratification reaps rewards aplenty. [Jun 2026, p.86]

The Glass Bead Game sees him broadening his palette to even greater effect. [Aug 2009, p.96]

Ghost... has most of the more straightforward roots songs... Guttertown mostly contains the weirder stuff. [Dec. 2011 p. 97]

Like Marianne Faithfull’s grazed, rueful daughter telling fragile stories of heartbreak. Or sometimes like Faithfull’s hopeful but world-weary grandmother.

Amid all the bleakness and despair, Goulden emerges as a true shining light. [May 2018, p.92]

An evocative, synesthesic aura halos the second LP from the transatlantic trio. [Jan 2019, p.93]

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

A charm offensive, rewarding casual observer with a supreme precis of Pollard's genius: the bombastic rock anthem rationalised into naive-pop jewellery. [Sep 2020, p.92]

Offers many perfect showcases for their ability to take lounge inside a groove 'til something remarkable happens. [Nov 2020, p.85]