The greatest thing about this tribute album is that ... the biggest names on it ... all bring their A game. [Apr 2012, p. 88]

Rich and radio-friendly pop. [Apr 2012, p.101]

Sublime stuff. [Jul 2016, p.92]

They impress with a neo-Romanticism rather than basic rabble-rousing. [Sep 2016, p.99]

Top-notch whiteboy radio rock with an eerie inner glow of Manson family sunshine...

Cerulean Salt's added electricity, rhythm section, variety and production clarity still retains the intimacy, the skeletal arrangements and the plaintive urgency in here delivery, from a yelp to a croon. [Aug 2013, p.93]

It's an intriguing new incarnation for Bauer: Om and pop. [Jul 2014, p.88]

A lot happens on Eleven Eleven -- all of it good. [Sept. 2011, p. 106]

From the title's Depression-era jokes onwards, Cooder protests like it's 1939. [Oct 2011, p.96]

It's late-night, it's autumnal and it's really rather lovely. [Jan 2026, p.82]

Packs ear-worms and dulcet vocal harmonies galore. [Mar 2021, p.86]

Niagara is a remarkable debut. [Nov 2014, p.93]

Add in lyrics that could make Brian Wilson weep and here is an album equally suitable for long winter nights and bright summer parties. [Jan 2025, p.89]

Throughout a refreshing spirit of old-school sonic exploration pervades. [Nov 2012, p.87]

Night Thoughts is the work of a band very much at home in the here and now, all the while looking forward. Still something else, still something wonderful. [Feb 2016, p.88]

The orchestral setting tempers the mannered vocal tics of some originals and proves transformative. [Dec 2012, p.96]

Nothing prehistoric about the latest Buffalo Tom: this is the golden sound of a band in their element. [Apr 2018, p.90]

The benchmark for 2008's best electronic record has been set. [July 2008, p.102]

What we get more of are melodies that stick. [Jul 2021, p.87]

Locating a broken, but still-beating heart within metallic machine music, East India Youth's debut is a triumph. [Feb 2014, p.97]

Smith's usual meditative, ambient-leaning approach is dialled back in favour of soaring wonky pop, ornate neoclasical and even quasi dancefloor movements. It gives rise to her most joyous music yet. [Oct 2022, p.87]

Some artists, such as Beck and Khruangbin with their art-funk overhauls of Fund My Way and Pretty Boys respectively, build traditional, if inventive remixes around Macca's vocals. Other go further and basically cover the songs. [Aug 2021, p.83]

The odd over ethereal moment notwithstanding, the remainder of the album proves equally alluring. [Jan 2013, p.90]

A massive step away from his band's sound and more towards that of his friend and touring partner Nathaniel Rateliff. No one could dismiss Mumford as a lightweight folk tourist after this. [Nov 2022, p.86]

It is Mastodon's ability to blend such grandstanding flourishes with a powerful sense of songcraft that suggests Crack The Skye might be some "Master Of Puppets" breakthrough for the Atlanta quartet. [May 2009, p.98]

It's as complete as any Floyd completist could hope for. [Apr 2012, p.101]

Fits is sublime, sexy, unmisable. [Jul 2009, p.99]

Altogether Stranger is a significant upgrade and these dystopian but hopeful, image-drenched songs are surely the way ahead for an artist who's becoming special. [Jun 2025, p.82]