[Sid Griffin] hurled all bluegrass boundaries out the window as pride of place on this new album. [Nov 2016, p.92]

[Highly Suspect] may alarm those who recall grunge and nu metal. [Jan 2017, p.104]

[Vanishing Life] exceed the sum of their hardcore parts by adding loose, QOTSA-style hips to their riffs and even the odd synth. [Jan 2017, p.104]

After 20 years, Fuzzy Logic still hasn't stopped making sense. [Jan 2017, p.110]

Demos have emerged from 1965-66, 1968 and 1973, but these 13 are the best yet. [Jan 2017, p.110]

Gelb may be onto something and his chutzpah i laudable but, ultimately, only time decides which songs become standards. [Dec 2017, p.94]

While hats should be tipped for the sentiments expressed, with less urgency to make his point and more time spent on making it listenable the message might have stood a chance of reaching a few more ears. [Jan 2017, p.96]

Highlights are many. [Jan 2017, p.100]

The London trio founded by drummer Yussef Dayes and Keyboardist Kamaal Williams give it an urban twist , factoring grime and broken beat influences into their unpredictable improvised jams. [Jan 2017, p.99]

Live albums often disappoint but this one doesn't. [Jan 2017, p.101]

Awash in trademark snaky overdrive, heavy sustain and controlled feedback, this is a big, rich work of buzzy acid-blues melodicism, the unique sound of a guitar virtuoso sketching wild patterns for late-night journeying. [Dec 2016, p.94]

Oren Ambarchi and several of his distinguished collaborators move from cold pulsing grooves to free electronic jazz freakout in a manner most conductive to euphoria. [Jan 2017, p.97]

Technically striking, yet for all its precision sounds oddly sanitised. [Jan 2017, p.104]

He [Scott Mogan] references Phillip Glass, anti-humanist literature and aerial photos of industrial pollution. [Jan 2017, p.104]

A debut both thrillingly volatile and touchingly melancholic. [Jan 2017, p.104]

Now he only resembles himself--a distinctive and exhilarating vituperative voice celebrating anything from glam rock to beans on toast. [Jan 2017, p.102]

Dawn's Auto-Tuned vocals push it into Major Lazer territory. Yet the best moments are where restraint wins out. [Jan 2017, p.102]

The package as a whole doesn't invite repeated listens. [Jan 2017, p.102]

A mixed bag, then, but rarely short of mood-elevating. [Jan 2017, p.100]

Ultimately guided by voices, it peaks on cypher session S Bento MC5, an affectionate homage to A Tribe Called Quest's Scenario. [Jan 2017, p.99]

A sensitive, sure-footed triumph. [Jan 2017, p.99]

It's both far-out and potentially pack-leading. [Jan 2017, p.99]

An urgent if mostly meditative-sounding call-to-arms, that he brings poetic shape and power to his politics. [Jan 2017, p.98]

Gately's soft vocal melodies audible through the layers of madness, leading you to points of strange beauty and lyrical wonder. [Jan 2017, p.97]

Wainwright nevertheless manages to make the songs her own. [Jan 2017, p.96]

No Further Ahead Than Today's 10 chromium-smooth synth-pop essays are so meticulously, lavishly and mellifluously constructed that listening to them is like being dosed up with dopamine. [Jan 2017, p.96]

There's a palpable connection to their country's dread history that allows Wolf People to transcend their music's fantasy elements, whiles still being properly fantastic. [Jan 2017, p.96]

Before The Dawn is glorious and confounding--in other words, pure Kate. [Jan 2017, p.96]