Another inspirational triumph over adversity. [Oct 2018, p.90]

Every song puts a tap in your toe, a worm in your ear and a smile on your face. [Oct 2018, p.85]

Dissolution doesn't break character, but there's a sharper focus to the writing--and more sweeping melodies. [Sep 2018, p.88]

Every song is arranged beautiful but it feels like an accomplished assemblage rather than a living, breathing whole. [Oct 2018, p.85]

A soaring, feverish conflagration of sense and sensuality. [Sep 2018, p.90]

Their follow-up sees them crank everything up to the next level. [Sep 2018, p.94]

It's a tense, grace and often euphoric listening experience that simultaneously lacks the grit, drama and disquiet of their finest work. [Oct 2018, p.91]

A psychedelic soft rock treat that peaks with the uncanny, ethereal chord-changes of the sleep-walking Meet Me in The Air, but Poignancy, tunefulness and feeling abound throughout. [Sep 2018, p.94]

Negro Swan is more consolidation than the ext great leap forwards. [Oct 2018, p.91]

There's more to the differences between the two versions, however, than a valve amp versus the original's solid state, with over 30 years of musicianship and experience bringing the songs up to modern speed. [Sep 2018, p.92]

Songs feel shy of messing with the familiar. [Sep 2018, p.94]

Performance is White Denim's most produced album, thickly textured with brass, keyboards and studio atmospheres. Play it loud, though, and you easily imagine the euphoria at the bar after every track. [Sep 2018, p.84]

Beautiful songs studded with dissonant eruptions of noise. [Oct 2018, p.94]

A keeper. ... This is still a terrific entry point into a band who repay obsession. [Oct 2018, p.87]

It hangs together and, indeed, convincingly documents fragmentation of the individual. [Sep 2018, p.94]

There are nods to Scissor Sisters with some honky-tonk disco and references to the demi-monde. But there are also extraordinary tracks of looped beats and grainy heartbreak. [Oct 2018, p.84]

The intervening nine songs jump between genres with varied success, with a fee whimsical tracks sticking out like sore thumbs. [Oct 2018, p.88]

It works as a powerful artistic statement. [Oct 2018, p.88]

This is taut, Blondie-cool guitar-pop with a finger on the self-destruct tab. [Oct 2018, p.90]

At its core, this is pop music of a rare assurance. [Oct 2018, p.91]

Go To School is a misstep--the sound of talented young musicians over-reaching to the point of unlistenability. [Oct 2018, p.93]

Another strong set. [Oct 2018, p.94]

At Weddings quickly coalesces into an utterly compelling presence. [Sep 2018, p.88]

A Broke Moon Rises sheds a gentle but persistent light in the darkness. [Sep 2018, p.86]

It's always good when, after 30 years as a music critic, the hairs on your arms stand on end. [Sep 2018, p.89]

Slightly mannered vocals; odd but good. [Sep 2018, p.96]

Coup De Grace may not radically change skeptics' perception of Kane as Turner's lesser-half. ... But dig deeper and you'll find Kane's finest work so far. [Sep 2018, p.86]

A sweet, herbal fug hanging over proceedings, Zebra joins the dots between blissed-out Balearica, trippy kosmische, Eastern and Afro vibes and spacey jazz. [Sep 2018, p.91]