Mid-life crisis rarely sounded so appealing. [Nov 2014, p.90]

Piercing, heated, Fever Ray is taking no prisoners. [Mar 2018, p.97]

Sports is more circumspect and subtle. Yet when the hooks of White Pebbles, Bad Rockets or Syncing In slyly take hold, the effect is indelible. [Mar 2017, p.97]

Deliver[s] more surreal, neon-psych country rock, in sweet harmonies and super-crunchy six-string riffs. [Oct 2023, p.89]

It's good to hear that force-of-nature voice again. [Dec 2012, p.96]

Two Gallants make good on their promise with this third LP. [Oct 2007, p.94]

Enlightened and challenging... an incredible String Band for a brave new world. [Mar 2016, p.99]

It's top quality stuff. [May 2008, p.106]

The Song Of Day And Night catches Jones aka Summertyme at his best. [Jun 2017, p.91]

Eno has rarely sounded so luminous and wistful, evoking alongside Wolfe a desert sunset that makes you excited to be alive but sad to have only so long left. [Jul 2025, p.83]

But whereas their 2004 debut EP Headgit was intriguing if slightly stiff, they have developed into a propulsive unit with good tunes and a panoramic, near-psychedelic guitar sound. [Jan 2010, p. 90]

The economy and velvet touch of Efterklang's music-making have survived, except the finesse is now allied to a newly arresting, wistful songwriting style that carries with it echoes of the early Coldplay.

The sweetness of its sun-kissed textures and playful melodies mark out El Turista as his best work since 2005's near flawless "Nashville." [Apr 2010, p.98]

Here they're presented as a crisp, razor-edged groove unit, with not a milligram of flab aboard. either instrumentally or melodically. [May 2024, p.84]

Y'Y shows his fluid piano technique - a hard to quantify mix of Monk, Ibrahim, Corea and Shipp - let loose on looping patterns that trace ever more surprising arcs and mood variations. [Jun 2024, p.88]

Same old boots, maybe, but significantly racier kecks. [Oct 2025, p.88]

It's the "ballads," for want of a better term, that provide V's definitive highlights. [Oct 2017, p.89]

A 14-song whirlwind of dazzling approaches. [Aug 2024, p.88]

Often described as old beyond his years, on Fires For The Cold Tolchin has truly grown up. [Nov 2019, p.88]

The thrill-packed Mudflowers--as unlikely as it seems--will be high on 2015's American best-of lists. [Sep 2015, p.88]

Legendary US photographer employs Korg synths, piano on Home-recorded improvs and covers. [Dec 2017, p.96]

Her lovers rock take of Patsy Cline's Walking After Midnight further strengthens reggae and country's fine romance, and who could have predicted that Morrissey's Everyday Is Like Sunday would sound like an out-take from the Special AKA's IN the Studio when reworked as rocksteady with woozy horns? [Jul 2023, p.82]

An action-packed blockbuster. [Oct 2006, p.104]

Vessel Of Love is her most vital work to date. [Mar 2018, p.91]

Booker has relocated to a more contemporary - and sonically speaking, far more interesting - place here. [Feb 2025, p.82]

The result is a thematically complex neo-romantic narrative of wit, tension and sweep. [Mar 2016, p.97]

Ex-Orange Juicer bounces back, against cruel and unbelievable odds. [Oct. 2010, p. 96]

It's a fantastic collection, there's still nothing else remotely like it. [Apr 2008, p.104]