Generally rawer than it's predecessor Home, Under Cold Blue Stars is as evocative as Rouse's much-lauded debut Dressed Up Like Nebraska, while reaching still further from the twang of his adopted Nashville. [Mar 2002, p.100]

Her voice is as irresistible as her songs. [Feb 2004, p.103]

Their debut album triumphs, thanks to how well those constituent parts complement each other. [Apr 2016, p.91]

Marshall's irregular flashes of idiosyncratic brilliance impress, though The OOZ's 19 tracks contain many longueurs that merely baffle or bore, so tread carefully. [Nov 2017, p.100]

It's moving, cathartic and achieves new levels of sophistication. [Jun 2020, p.94]

Invisible Cities feels three dimensional with some animated movement beneath the surface. [Mar 2021, p.89]

Williams' forward-pushing, inter-generational sound - 70s fusion-era grooves mingle with modern club motifs - is fully formed on this second full solo outing. [Aug 2020, p.91]

A far cry from the murky jazz-metal wig-outs of yore, TMV is a triumph of melody, smooth instrumentation and soul. [Oct 2022, p.82]

Arguably they're at their best when wrapped around each other, such as on "Santa Monica Dream" and "Draw Your Swords," where it's a sweet and savoury blend to warm the soul. [Apr 2010, p.94]

A Splash Of Colour remains more grab-bag than coherent statement. [Jun 2016, p.104]

Stunning. [Jan 2026, p.84]

Driven, hooky, moving. Better than Prozac or a sunny day. [Aug 2015, p.88]

It's an uneven but at times wonderfully eccentric mix of early-'80s synth-pop mores and a kind of post-industrial electro that wants to sound like Depeche Mode but then wants to get all nasty on you. [Dec 2013, p.98]

Pay No Mind plays appealingly like The Jesus And Mary Chain slowed to 16 rpm. Then, just as you're settling into drowsy twilight, out of nowhere, a lyric smacks like citrus on the tongue. [Jun 2018, p.89]

The album levitates with light and serenity. [Mar 2021, p.88]

From the cascading choruses of See In The Dark to the title track's stylish chimes, and in What Do I Know she may have found Deep Sea Diver's key to crossover. [Apr 2025, p.83]

Anyone who fell for Fontaines D.C.'s 2019 debut Dogrel should find plenty to love in this first offering from Cork's Cardinals. [Mar 2026, p.81]

[A] dazzling selection of pop songs. [Aug 2005, p.96]

End Of Everything surface gloss barely conceals a raw intensity. [Jun 2023, p.90]

Throughout, a world weariness and wisdom far beyond John Fullbright's 25 years. [Jul 2014, p.93]

Many of the inventive musical excursions were improvised live in the studio. [Nov 2014, p.95]

It's hot, loose, raucous, and retro in an overlapping-era kind of way. [Jun 2012, p.93]

Though Anderson buries his voice and words in the maelstrom, his declared (if not immediately) apparent) theme of a constantly thwarted search for "true love" seems right at home in shoegazing's characteristic marriage of bliss and anxiety. [Dec 2023, p.93]

The remainder unfurls in similar fashion: laudably spirited, often astoundingly catchy and entirely indebted to the past. [Jun 2011, p.101]

Throughout, singer Ellie Roswell is a compelling presence, and the result is Wolf Alice's best yet. [Oct 2025, p.80]

This full of 303 squelches and flat, ever wonderful 808 thups-thups, sinister vocals and robot rumba rhythms. [Aug 2012, p.102]

Hallelujah Anyhow needs a shade more definition to cut through the reassuring vintage fug. [Nov 2017, p.94]

Theirs remains a gallows wit. [Nov 2005, p.112]