Animal admirably slips standard musical taxonomy to take on a life of it own. [Aug 2021, p.83]

A trip that feel like it's over way too soon. [Sep 2022, p.89]

This is music that needs to be heard in as long a form as possible, so nothing breaks the immersive hallucinatory effect, and you can lose all sense of time direction and place. [Mar 2023, p.93]

By this double alum's end, it feels like a breakthrough in every way, the sound of an artist who has not only forged on, but also hit a glorious peak. [Jun 2023, p.84]

bdrmm's murky spider play tugs at the listener's emotions in unanticipated ways. [Aug 2023, p.87]

It's absorbing stuff, even shorn of the images. [Aug 2023, p.87]

It's the confessional aspect that makes this compelling stuff, whether relating mid-life disappointment in Living The Dream or detailing a life reset in the delicately chiming Clean. [Jul 2024, p.84]

Impassioned, ambitious and accomplished. [Aug 2025, p.82]

A huge step forwards: certainly professionally but surely personally too. [Jan 2026, p.84]

With Childish producing, they pick up where they left off. [Jan 2026, p.84]

It all conjures visions of student unrest, mud-strewn festivals and the pink island label, and the chutzpah and belief at work make it pretty much irresistible. [Apr 2026, p.89]

This is unmistakeably the Arctics, only stronger, harder, sharper, faster.... An extraordinary and fulfilling sequel to their debut. [May 2007, p.100]

Floating Coffin is manna for the faithful, but also an excellent point for newbies to get onboard. [Jul 2013, p.87]

Bowel-rattling rhythmic rock that's as viscerally exciting as it is grubby. [Feb 2005, p.101]

A palpably open and free atmosphere underscores these songs, on which the same exotic and dexterous musical arrangements Rostam honed with his old band allow Leithauser's sandpaper Sinatra to truly swing. true dream team. [Oct 2016, p.96]

The material is faultless. [Apr 2015, p.92]

Immunity never drags. [Jul 2013, p.86]

Above all, there's a genius for economy. [Aug 2014, p.94]

Thematically, Radical Romantics can be seen as a mellow follow-up to the angrier, gender-politics-driven Plunge. Instead, it celebrates self-exploration. [Apr 2023, p.88]

Encyclopedic US indie rock--American Civil War, Walt Whitman, Hold Steady, Shakespeare all included.

This album has been well worth the wait. [May 2018, p.91]

Thresholder is the sound of celestial awe striking, albeit sometimes opaquely. [Jan 2019, p.89]

Limber, spacey music, pitched somewhere between jazz, funk and ambience, in the company of an innovative new class of sessioners. [May 2021, p.87]

Unsurprisingly, it flies the Wire and Minutemen flags high. More surprising are the occasional nods to funk and '60s bubblegum. [Jun 2018, p.95]

A series of melodic sunset tales in which the bright light of Moore's piano is shaded and scattered by the dusk notes of his accompanists. [Nov 2014, p.99]

This is terrific, 90-minutes of ice-quaking noise, jet-engine feedback, histrionic metal screaming, Gothic doom and ambient euphoria that feels simultaneously ecstatic and terrifying. [Aug 2015, p.95]

Loma are quite capable of drawing listeners in with their own perspective. [Dec 2020, p.86]

Wainwright's fifth LP has artistry galore. [Sep 2021, p.78]