An account of how virulent idealogy can draw in the most rational people. [Jun 2016, p.97]

Hearing Aidan Moffat in such jocose mood on his first song-based record without Malcolm Middleton is quite the revelation. [Apr 2009, p.99]

Among their best. [Sep 2002, p.104]

Coldplay-style ascendance is entirely within reach. [May 2012, p.92]

These stark, sweet confessionals easily rank among the best of his career. [Nov 2004, p.108]

Gorgeous from beginning to end, Luck Or Magic is evenly split between originals and covers. [Aug 2016, p.91]

A beguiling marriage of tradition and modernism. [May 2011, p.107]

While Long Live The Strange turns the outsiderism of Supergrass's Strange Ones into an anthem, with bonus chorale. The rest is more soul-searching, but with instrumental structuring and melodic grace of satisfying excellence. [Feb 2023, p.82]

For a record about captive states - isolation, anxiety, romantic hope - Things Take Time, Take Time knows how to move. [Dec 2021, p.85]

MC Dalek's indignant imagery can be tricky to unpick, yet his barbed lines are hard to dislodge on Weapons And Battlecries. [Oct 2017, p.96]

This is an enthusiastic hymn to the terminally uncool. [May 2004, p.106]

Caravan sound reinvigorated and energised here on their best album in, let's say, quite some time. [Nov 2021, p.93]

The Soderbergs seize the day. [Jul 2014, p.91]

The songs have a sort of likeable innocence; humanistic and quirky. ... Nothing not to like here. [Apr 2022, p.84]

An album that welds together sedate ambient techno and grand Radiophonic Workshop-style analogue experimentation. [Jan 2018, p.96]

Yet another acknowledgement of these two commanding talents. [Nov 2014, p.95]

A record that feels warmer, wiser and less forced than any of his albums so far. [Jun 2022, p.88]

Sol. Hz radiates a luxuriant warmth that's hinted in its title. [Jun 2026, p.93]

With Halycon Digest, Deerhunter are dealing in an altogether different kind of tension. [Oct. 2010, p. 90]

Merges jazz and Arabian classical music with invention and panache. [Apr 2025, p.87]

The interplay between Stephen McBean's laconic drawl and Amber Webber's gothic-tinged wail remains their secret weapon, lending a lean bite to this hefty psychedelic behemoth. [May 2016, p.93]

This is reflective country pop with a Van Zandt-ish warmth and wisdom. [May 2017, p.98]

At it's core, Peasant resembles a masterpiece, but this softening of the sonic edges ultimately dulls its grand impact. [Jul 2017, p.94]

There's often an old-world gravitas and a contemporary lightness of touch at play simultaneously, the tangible lineage of these story-rich, often long-form songs reaching deep within you. [Nov 2022, p.89]

Follow-up to 2008's widely acclaimed Dear Science recorded at guitarist David Sitek's home. [June 2011, p. 92]

Two gorgeously restless, swarthy voices destined to be together. [May 2012, p.92]

There is a single-minded intensity to the writing and the production which makes The Bride a very strong proposition indeed. [Aug 2016, p.91]

At times, it recalls the late-'60s acid blues experiments on Leigh Stephens' Red Weather and Peter Green's The End Of The Game but with a shimmering summer optimism and textural complexity all MacKay's own. [Oct 2017, p.92]