Council Skies is very much a creative success. It's the sound of Noel Gallagher pushing onwards, while once again playing to his strengths. [Jul 2023, p.85]

Evoking the ramshackle psychedelia of Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Cryk nonetheless shows Le Bon following her own path. [May 2012, p.88]

Spread over a whole CD, there is some worryingly featureless stuff. [Apr 2004, p.102]

His supersonic flow frequently dazzles, yet he remains intelligible and intelligent throughout. [Mar 2006, p.106]

An unadorned diamond in the rough, and his best record. [Mar 2014, p.94]

Ghost Culture;s pungent, treacly melodies and fidgety, complex syncopation are a robust blend. [Mar 2015, p.97]

Heart Song dips deeper into drama, with additional electric guitar and heavier drums adding chiaroscuro to her patented slowburn. [Dec 2016, p.89]

Baroque pop at its most exhilarating. [Mar 2021, p.89]

This third outing developed a gnarly carpe diem edge. [Mar 2017, p.94]

These 11 songs never let the beats-per-minute lag, and this--coupled with the easy abundance of melody with which our host continues to leaven his left-field power pop--makes for some deliciously easy listening. [Oct 2017, p.91]

Piroshka's debut album is propelled by forceful, driving garage songs that see off Brexit, the Daily Mail, and school shooters. [Mar 2019, p.91]

It’s another uniquely memorable record, encapsulating its creator’s restless spirit. [Apr 2023, p.86]

Thee oh Sees have never done ‘Thee oh Sees’ quite as well as they do here, a riot of lucid cacophony, androgyny, glowing vignettes of loveliness, and two drummers caught in the most sublime lockstep.

A brilliant piece of art. [Mar 2017, p.91]

The most cohesive Gorillaz album since Demon Days 15 years ago. [Dec 2020, p.81]

Thirstier comes on like a bold, heady catharsis. [Sep 2021, p.86]

Songs build from hypnotic bass grooves and spindly guitar lines, Lottie Pendlebury's nonchalant vocals intertwined with circular countermelodies that pull you into their undertow. Lyrically deft and witty. [Mar 2021, p.82]

Microcastle could be 4AD's best release in well over a decade. [Dec 2008, p.108]

If Crack-Up falls short of perfection, it inspires hope that transcendence is waiting around the corner. [Jul 2017, p.84]

Its troubled state suits the melancholy in Hinson's soul, his broken burr laid like a wreath across lingering strings and the wistfulTexas twang of his tunes. [Jul 2010, p.104]

An exquisitely recorded, enjoyably messy affair. [Nov 2011, p.102]

It's funny, touching, thoughtful, more than a little weird....and rather wonderful. [Feb 2013, p.89]

In places, it's intense, heavy and oppressive, but Uondapaturu and Skeleton Island pull off the trick of satisfying both party hedonists and those simply seeking gratification within the confines of their headphones. [Aug 2013, p.91]

A Deeper Understanding is exhilarating in places, but perhaps inevitably, give n it's long and convoluted gestation, it can at times feel like it's trying too hard. [Sep 2017, p.90]

Lillies is an album which the solo Siouxsie Sioux would have been proud to record. [Nov 2017, p.96]

Dan Auerbach takes Finley further away from his church-and-porch roots with a brief to present the artist as a classic all-rounder and on 10 songs written by Auerbach, John Prince and Nick Lowe, he proves himself just that. [Jan 2018, p.89]

It is as timely as it is sobering and, in places, austerely, compellingly beautiful. [Nov 2022, p.90]

This opens with rocking electric blues guitar, rolling piano and a singalong chorus. The warm, barroom feel continues in Alcohallelujah. [Aug 2023, p.80]