Music ripe for reappraisal. [Nov 2022, p.98]

These former young lions are well on their way to becoming venerated old masters. [Nov 2022, p.91]

Hearing this in its entirety 45 years on, it really is up there with Young's greats. [Oct 2023, p.97]

Ozarker is both sentimental and hard-nosed, nostalgic about a past without ignoring the modern world's gritty reality. [Dec 2023, p.93]

Live God does what the best live albums do: capturing both the thrills and spills of the performance and the audience's rapturous response to it. [Feb 2026, p.82]

Reorderd, with three more excellent songs, copious sleevenotes, and some remixing and updated vocals that never detract from the authenticity of the project. [Aug 2023, p.93]

A gorgeously warm, light-footed pop that roams freely. [Aug 2024, p.88]

The balance between Joe's resigned words and uplifting melodies remains sublime. [Aug 2003, p.100]

It sears through the essence of what makes this band special, the brave voice and ebullient delivery of singer-songwriter-guitarist James Mercer. [Apr 2004, p.98]

Given its length, trying to tackle To Be Kind n one sitting might feel like the musical equivalent of scaling Everest, but with so many dizzying peaks along the way the effort is well rewarded. [Jun 2014, p.90]

Despite the turmoil these songs describe, a flash of Elliott Smith-style emotional acuity every few seconds, musically Valentine tells a different story. Building on the confidence of 2018 debut Lush. [Nov 2021, p.87]

This is a protest album and a damn good one. [Nov 2016, p.93]

This is a completist's delight in drab artwork. [Sep 2017, p.100]

Lightning Bolt consistently sound like no one else. [Dec 2005, p.105]

Indelible, compulsive, flecked with genuine brillance throughout, it's as good as any of the acknowledged clasics from the Clan's '93-96 peak. [Nov 2009, p.95]

The album appears as a warm, welcoming pool, soaking its balms, and its messages, deep into our bones. [Jun 2020, p.84]

It's when everything begins to fan out like a peacock's tail at the height of courting season that you're reminded just why Newsom is a 21st century one-off. [Nov 2015, p.84]

The music - a little Lumineers, a little Fleet Foxes - stands up for itself. [Jul 2021, p.88]

Still ethereal and episodic, it's less sequestered, more outgoing [than Ekstasis], with an influx of strings and brass bringing warmth to concoctions of stunning invention and variety. [Sep 2013, p.94]

Bad As me is alive with some of his greatest yet. [Nov 2011, p.90]

All told, another luxurious wallow in art and agitation. [Jul 2016, p.98]

If that all sounds bleak, it is. Yet Lives Outgrown is also very beautiful. [Jun 2024, p.80]

Dark, intense and utterly compelling record. [Nov 2017, p.98]

A thick braid of an album, each song a bundle of strands interweaving with next. [May 2020, p.94]

Malone excels himself with the brassy pop of 'Lover's Day' and 'Golden Age.' [Oct 2008, p.112]

As on her debut, beats are minimal, bordering on lo-fi, allowing Bey space to voice in meditative jazzy runs whose no- messing eccentricity strongly recalls primetime Erykah Badu. [Jul 2024, p.94]

All quite stunning. [Jul 2024, p.92]

Jewel-sparkly and gently devastating. .... Devotees of Judee Sill, loved-up Bill Callahan and When Harry Met Sally will find it bright-eyed, glossy of coat and gentle of snout. Take it home. Feel less alone. [Aug 2024, p.85]