Stylistic Easter eggs confound and delight. [Oct 2023, p.86]

The necessary and sustaining art-yin to their live knees-ups’ yang, with Theatre Of The Absurd… Madness have made an album that is among their absolute best. [Jan 2024, p.90]

It's Metheny, ever the mercurial magician, who's driving the band; his eloquent guitar etching a kaleidoscope f sonic hues. [Mar 2014, p.92]

Music ripe for reappraisal. [Nov 2022, p.98]

The album delivers on the promise. {Feb 2011, p.104]

There's a moving intimacy and improvisational feel to the wistful, late night, piano songs. [Apr 2003, p.108]

Its music whose provenance is the dance floor, but steeped in emotional warmth. [Jul 2016, p.95]

Pollack's velvety, diction-rich voice shines on the syncopated, a cappella intro of "The Loop," and her idiosyncratic, mostly cryptic lyrics can be striking. [Apr 2010, p.104]

The finale to an exemplary act of curation. [Jan 2023, p.102]

While Idles boast similar reserves of adrenalin and attitude, Italia 90 better deploy groove. [Feb 2023, p.84]

Hex isn’t really about individual tracks, though: it’s about mood and feel. Overwhelmingly, the feel is good. [Aug 2024, p.86]

The main deal here concerns a dozen new tracks, deliciously delivered in that soulful quaver of a voice. [Oct 2016, p.92]

Polizze's bubblegum melodies cut through the fuzz (Out The Door is a cracker), while Baby ups those '80s bona fides by echoing Pixies' Wave Of Mutilation. [Apr 2023, p.89]

The result is an atmospheric sound, refined without losing its feisty, sometimes bitter vitality. [Sep 2014, p.98]

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

A clutch of moving haikus. ... Knowing, experimental, hopeful, ironic, this could be Mary Margaret O'Hara--wringing your heart, engaging your brain. [Dec 2019, p.89]

A triumph of majestic American pop uplift over bleak real-life adversity. [Oct 2005, p.112]

A truly fine album. [Mar 2021, p.84]

A triumph of psychedelic melody, drone and eerie groove. [Jul 2006, p.104]

Hard to know if he's upbeat or down--at times it might be a break-up album--but enjoyable either way. [Nov 2014, p.92]

Inspiral Carpets sounds like the band did back in 1989 on their Dung 4 demo. [Nov 2014, p.92]

This is The Chemical Brothers at their crowd-pleasing, raucous best. [July 2010]

Such a bad idea. Such a stunning result. [Mar 2008, p.114]

It's been a long journey, but Spiral Stairs has finally found his voice. [Apr 2017, p.90]

There's almost too much to bask in. [Nov 2023, p.91]

He's made a dramatic leap between first and second album as profound and unexpected as that of John Grant. [Feb 2014, p.96]

All told, a spellbinding journey. [Mar 2014, p.100]

Reflective, lyrically and musically. [Aug 2021, p.84]