The duo-only, no bass required songs don't lack for sonic depth. [Sep 2004, p.98]

While opener Der Lange Marsh 1 sways like a marram grass in the breeze, there's a relentlessness to the album's overall progress. [Mar 2022, p.87]

There's an undeniable zip to these. [Jun 2024, p.82]

[Snaith] continues to explore a digital/analogue interface to mind-bending effect, balancing riotous abstraction with day-glo pop. [Jun 2005, p.97]

This is real person-to-person music. [Jan 2013, p.95]

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

Metals is the product of a stock-taking pause, it's clear the former Canadian indie scenester had rediscovered her bearings. [Oct 2011, p.106]

This time Linkous lets his gift for fractured folk song to resonate without encumbrance from freaky noise slugs. The results are sensational. [Jul 2001, p.98]

OOIOO instill Boredoms' cosmic clatter with an air of genre-bursting adventure and mischief. [Nov 2005, p.108]

If Solomon Burke and Will Oldham had a baby. [Mar 2009, p.105]

S, no watersports this time, but a wee triumph nonetheless. [Dec 2009, p. 100]

[ORO: Opus Alter] is more startling than the first [Oro: Opus Primum]. [Nov 2012, p.96]

These are ingenious, affecting songs on a DIY recording budget. [Nov 2013, p.88]

Occasionally tracks are achingly earnest; but overall this is light in the darkness, about love and death and bravery of all kinds. [May 2014, p.94]

Dinosaur Jr, Screaming Trees and GBV overlap on this Venn diagram of melodic powerpop. [Jul 2014, p.96]

For all its flaws, the outcome remains spectacular. [Oct 2014, p.103]

Eighth and best-yet album of horn'n'vibes-heavy jazz cinematics. [Oct 2014, p.96]

An eerily rootless modern drift through the electronic depths of Tarkovsky's Zone. [Feb 2015, p.96]

A vessel for unsettled emotional truths. [Sep 2015, p.95]

West Kirby Country Primary declares the vivid flowering of a great talent. [Dec 2015, p.84]

Treetop Flyers have not exactly reinvented the wheel but certainly given the tyres a good kicking and come up with all kinds of right. [Apr 2016, p.89]

The Uzi/Live Skull/Come veteran conveys the therapeutic power of bleak yet lovely music. [Sep 2016, p.99]

The whole shebang is a lovely thing to bring back to Real World, the label that first signed Arthur back in 1997. [Aug 2016, p.96]

By finally abandoning the pursuit of making alt-rock sound as pristine as possible, Twin Atlantic have actually struck upon something much more significant here: their identity. [Oct 2016, p.96]

Dense and dark as always, but with new light seeping through the undergrowth, Unseen is The Handsome Family's masterpiece. [Sep 2016, p.95]

A worthy addition to the genre. [Nov 2016, p.92]

A weave of sublimely lysergic folk-pop. [Feb 2017, p.99]

Undoubtedly one of his strongest. [Feb 2017, p.97]