Their ninth studio album is simultaneously more cosmic and conceptual than earlier efforts. [Jun 2017, p.89]

The 12 songs making up their self-titled first album, though, are broad in scope and full of individual flourishes. [Oct 2022, p.89]

It's the songs--funny, literate, doomed--which get under your skin. [Apr 2009, p.100]

For an artist who is often too much, however, it is just enough. [Jul 2018, p.89]

He understands the value of restraint, his meticulously assembled songs slowly giving up their secrets rather than tipping everything out at once. [May 2013, p.82]

Moisturizer shows, decisively, that while the metal gauntlets might be very much on, creatively, Wet leg's gloves are off. [Aug 2025, p.74]

Well-served by the sparse guitar-and-vocal arrangements and intimate, reverb-y ambience. [Oct 2020, p.84]

Drake's genuinely fleet-footed flows and sly humour prevent his pained introspection descending into a cheesy whine fest. [Aug 2016, p.95]

He finds drama in the mundane. [Nov 2021, p.94]

Peripatetic post-Americana quintet release their Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. [July 2011, p. 104]

There's more to the differences between the two versions, however, than a valve amp versus the original's solid state, with over 30 years of musicianship and experience bringing the songs up to modern speed. [Sep 2018, p.92]

Iconoclasts is its own untamable beast. Adventurous sonically, dynamically rich, it feels daunting, deep as the Mariana Trench. [Dec 2025, p.81]

Supple rhythm section underpins Rowley's abstract lyrics facing existential ills with charisma and skill. [Dec 2020, p.89]

They still sound remarkably fresh, and here their short (only three of the 14 songs last longer than three minutes), sharp shock still kicks hard. [Jan 2024, p.86]

It is a deeply odd but consistently compelling work. [Nov 2014, p.98]

Black City is the devil leering over Asa Breed's shoulder, a seedy, dirty place--but a fascinating one, too. [Sep 2010, p.99]

A joyful, celebratory affair. [Apr 2014, p.92]

The bare-bones magic of Don't Forget Jane and Of Mind And Feeling proves Lewis's capacity for generating uplifting melodies matches the brawn of his solos. [Mar 2025, p.89]

It's better to simply let La Cucaracha happen and enjoy how much Gene and Dean toy with and transgress musical forms while still playing them to a high degree of invention, proficiency and sincerity. [Dec 2007, p.99]

These tracks feel more like intimate conversations, with Allen's boundless curiosity shining through. [Jun 2021, p.82]

At this temporal distance from the shock of their new, the post-millennial Pop Group are engaging, galvanizing, and far from unlistenable in its ongoing fusions of Afrobeat, funk and dub.

There's more hope to be found in the sound Deerhoof assemble into single songs that play like a hallucinating DJ's set. Any element sounds perfectly straight by itself, but layered together, they feel imported from the multiverse. [Jul 2020, p.87]

Throughout, Bryant's vocal is rich and full on songs that are framed in exclamatory horns and soothing organ. [Jun 2017, p.92]

The overall vibe here us one of relaxation rather than tension. [Apr 2015, p.93]

A real treasure. [Sep 2009, p.90]

Oddly seductive, genre-refuting curio. [Jun 2019, p.91]

It's over in a flash, an exhilarating fairground ride you won't want to disembark. [Mar 2024, p.88]

Mind Control [is] as entertaining as the schlock horror flicks which informed it. [May 2013, p.86]