The best thing he's done since [Hard Road to Travel]. [Jul 2012, p.88]

On the surface, Beware The Fetish is like My Bloody Valentine or Metal Machine Music, as unbowed or compromised by trying to give the people what they want. Yet at its heart is a burning desire to make fantastic pop music. [Aug 2014, p.88]

Elaborate, sometimes sneakily poignant tunes. [Aug 2018, p.93]

It's hard not to wonder whether Aksnes has been crowded-out on her own album [Mar 2022, p.83]

All in all, it's lovely, uplifting stuff. [Aug 2022, p.87]

A meticulous and bold piece of sound art, but one which is rooted in a plaintive local, human response to global catastrophe. [Mar 2023, p.91]

For a collection with an eye on the setting sun and the slow decline, it's a fine late flowering. [May 2015, p.91]

Heavier, weirder and bleaker than anything they've released, Distance Inbetween is weighty but never hard work. [Apr 2016, p.84]

Self-producing for the first time, Jurado's colour palette retains occasional ornamentation, including orchestration, Wurlitzers and a choir, but his immaculate velvet baritone is more often set in the starker relief of voice/guitar basics. [Jul 2018, p.93]

Shauf is as musically jaunty as Josh Rouse. [Mar 2020, p.92]

It moves sedately and seductively, a brooding mass of reverb, drone and throb, all counter-pointed by Trappes' gossamer-light vocals. [Jul 2021, p.87]

The danger with this kind of project is sounding like a '70s revue, but Rouse avoids that with his intimate vocal style and quirky songwriting. [Sep 2003, p.104]

A dozen simple, beautiful dirges. [May 2003, p.108]

Here, backed only by guitar or piano, she inhabits other singers' material (including Smog's "Red Apples") with a fierce conviction that's often startling.

This second is more sophisticated [than 2018 debut Sistahs]; distorted guitars still feedback and synths jar, but there is also mellotron, violin and Omnichord bringing subtlety and depth. [Dec 2022, p.91]

There's a fine story-telling country song (No One Knows Us); a dramatic rocker (Church & State) - and songs whose piano and multiple harmonies feel like church (You Without Me; Joni). But it never sounds less than gorgeous. [Dec 2025, p.78]

This is unashamedly traditional: committed, personal and really quite perfect. [May 2014, p.91]

His gentle mantric vocals and concise, evocative lyrics drift through layers of treated instrumentation and ambient electronica. [Apr 2008, p.112]

The sixth Dublin-based Mexican metalheads is an awesome thing in which every trick in the jard-rock manual is applied to the duo's Latin rhythms and acoustic wizardry. [Oct 2009, p.107]

Live drums and guitars give it a feeling of anarchic playfulness. [Aug 2005, p.101]

A wonderful album. [Jan 2016, p.93]

The resulting work is an entrancing inner space voyage through shapeshifter drones and radiant electronic nebulae. [Feb 2017, p.96]

It's hard world for little things, pigeon or human: these songs fight to ease the way. [Jul 2023, p.88]

Strip away the noise and you'll realize that the charm of Yuck is rooted in fundamentals of great songwriting. [March 2011, p. 108]

Hushed, understated psychedelia and Laurel Canyon-influenced LP. [Mar 2020, p.95]

It's themes may be familiar, but its fine, dazzlingly outlandish music is fresh and utterly fearless. [Nov 2009, p.88]

Damaged souls taking bitter stock of what they've become. It's all here in this raw, reflective clutch, with the taste of midlife crisis on its tongue. [Apr 2016, p.92]

These tracks chose to morph and mutate rather than petrify in any sense. [Jul 2016, p.92]