Its depth makes this their most satisfyingly sensual work to date. [Apr 2017, p.99]

With Heartworms James Mercer has produced another fine crop of pop. [Apr 2017, p.88]

An adroit demonstration of Power's aim to reflect today's festering political landscape. [Apr 2017, p.97]

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

Parlay music that while irrefutably folk, gleefully shoves aside traditionalist tropes in favour of a buoyant, full-bodied combo sound, that, passingly, recalls prime Fairport Convention while proffering a beguilingly mellifluous identity of its own. [Apr 2017, p.98]

Rich, sonic politesse on offer here. [Apr 2017, p.99]

These mostly instrumental voyages speak loudly of no known universe. [Mar 2017, p.98]

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

Windy City is a rather safe album. [Apr 2017, p.90]

The real star is Kingston MC Racquel Jones. [Apr 2017, p.99]

The wig-out-in-wonderland title track has a poppy, Donovan approach before its unsettling phased climax. [Apr 2017, p.99]

It's not an easy album to love. [Apr 2017, p.98]

The unlikely MC tag team's incontestable third rages hard over bass-driven beats positively thrumming with vitality. [Apr 2017, p.95]

The considered Heba is not immediate, but it worms its way in. [Apr 2017, p.95]

Sometimes it's more about a blues feeling, encompassing high-lonesome, electric country-blues rock, two-chord garage rock and at its most beautiful on the opening track Promise The World. [Apr 2017, p.94]

[Jackie] is another near-masterpiece. [Apr 2017, p.93]

A vital album for an anxious era. [Apr 2017, p.90]

Impermanence resonates like a lullaby, or a prayer. [Mar 2017, p.90]

Trimming, paring and refocusing has made Frontier Ruckus a far more enticing package, and if Milia isn't quite in the league of similar writers such at The Decemberists' Colin Meloy, he's catching up fast. [Mar 2017, p.93]

Wintery designs warmed by the likes of Bitchin' Bajas layering instruments, voices and electronics. [Feb 2017, p.99]

A delightful demonstration that sticking to your guns can be well worth it. [Mar 2017, p.95]

Without sounding like a faintheart, it comes as a relief that this album features a crop of high quality songs and instrumentals playing with dazzling finger-picking. [Mar 2017, p.90]

It's hard to fathom what such a talented songwriter needs to indulge her inner karaoke quite so far. [Mar 2017, p.97]

A thing of dark, possessed beauty. [Mar 2017, p.96]

The most satisfying Melvins-related release since Nude With Boots in 2008, Crystal Fairy also makes for a fine entry-point into Teri Gender Bender's dark, gnarly and theatrical oeuvre. [Mar 2017, p.97]

Deep immersive dream landscapes of calm and uncertainty that seem to push at the boundaries of space and time. [Mar 2017, p.97]

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

A vast swirling dystopia of euphoric white noise. [Mar 2017, p.97]