The results are mesmeric in their stately extrapolation of gloom. [May 2002, p.102]

Scrappy, heartfelt, yet utterly beautiful, it's a fitting farewell from a unique talent. [Oct 2025, p.87]

It's Orcutt's genius to find tenderness in the most forbidding places, and this time out he does so in the best possible company. [Oct 2025, p.85]

His spark remains undimmed. [Jul 2013, p.87]

All guns are still blazing, but slightly differently. [Mar 2023, p.86]

A much more emotionally spooked record than either of its MOR predecessors. [Sep 2016, p.97]

WOW's melodies and motifs are pretty with a dash of strange. ... But Kate NV remains thrillingly individual. [Apr 2023, p.89]

The songs effortlessly stand alone. [Jul 2014, p.86]

By the third listen, Burner is starting to feel like a great 21st century pop record. [Sep 2005, p.103]

The Future Bites is a great grown-up pop record - knowing and self-aware, but never too much for its own good. [Feb 2021, p.83]

Their strictly modal, contemplative soundscapes have rarely sounded more compelling. [Mar 2006, p.93]

Rossiter's tremulous, torchy delivery plays to the gallery, but beautifully, touchingly and sometimes exhaustedly. [Dec 2012, p.86]

The worst thing you can say about this record is it's low on surprises. [Sep 2010, p.103]

It's a beautiful, nuanced record, the sound of new boundaries forming and realigning. [Aug 2022, p.94]

Like other recent albums, this is not consistent enough to be classic Wilson but her voice still regularly seduces. [July 2008, p.109]

It turns to a clutch of its founding fathers and allies for its 14th outing. [Feb 2014, p.97]

[Azel] finds him maturing rapidly. [May 2016, p.93]

The NYC three-piece are a band playing to their strengths. [Feb 2009, p.113]

Audaciously, it all coheres. The vision is precise and the execution meticulous. The album's 14 songs are tightly arranged and energetically delivered. [Sep 2021, p.81]

There's a back-to-basics feel on the mid-tempo country rockers, the slow beauties and mournful lap steel, and even on the musically warm, more upbeat, almost Tex-Mex opening song. [Sep 2009, p.92]

His strength is his honesty. He couches his anxieties in simple but poetic language as his band find the sweet spot between country and rock. [Jul 2017, p.90]

She's one of a handful of people who could sing the telephone directory. [Dec 2002, p.115]

10 moving gems of adult experience. [Oct 2025, p.90]

The flow is smoother, and the whole thing has a more compressed, accessible feel, without compromising the essential psychedelic madness at its heart. [Apr 2004, p.113]

Reinvents Burt Bacharach on the Bell Gets Out If The Way and brings an XTC-ish bloom to the downtempo powerpop of Cherub and The Great Child Actor. [Dec 2021, p.84]

Pearl Jam grungemeister reveals self to be shameless romantic. {July 2011, p. 106]

His voice is parched, so the songs, many acoustic and trailing brutal honesty, speak clearly enough to grip you in their gnarled fist. [Sep 2016, p.98]

It finds the group's estimable strengths consolidated as never before. [Jun 2005, p.112]