It's lovely stuff throughout. [Apr 2015, p.87]

Carrie & Lowell has an air of insecurity underlining the sophistication of the music. [Apr 2015, p.84]

Van delves deep to breathe new life into some relatively lesser-known gems ranging from 1974’s Streets Of Arklow (from Veedon Fleece) to Get On With The Show (What’s Wrong With This Picture?, 2003), rejuvenating them with persuasive soul and passion.

Fresh Blood’s 10 tracks span an impressive spread of moods.

Her second full album centres on sophisticated rococo pop, but there's also a nice viscous, keyboard-heavy prog undertow. [Mar 2015, p.93]

Chic, soulful, but more boom and swoon than hooks. [Feb 2015, p.96]

Ultimately, Chasing Yesterday is an assured second step on Noel Gallagher’s solo path--more sure-footed lyrically, while bearing a very becoming new-found musical spaciness.

It suggest that a future as pullover wearing folkies is theirs for the taking if they fancied it. [Mar 2015, p.94]

At this temporal distance from the shock of their new, the post-millennial Pop Group are engaging, galvanizing, and far from unlistenable in its ongoing fusions of Afrobeat, funk and dub.

For it's pop smarts, Ten Love Songs feels like Sundfor's international breakthrough. But it's everything else--the disquieting atmosphere, her voice, the sinuous, haunting melodies it carries--which sets it apart. [Mar 2015, p.93]

[Signs Under Test] satisfies the soul without losing its precision-tooled digital lustre. [Mar 2015, p.97]

Mick Jones's production captures a vibrant, timeless analogue vibe, particularly on the sister's sassy numbers. [Mar 2015, p.97]

It is full of sublime moments. [Mar 2015, p.97]

Occasionally, the histrionics and faux-biblical warnings of this guitar-drum duo tread a fine Spinal Tap line, but they do its majestically they can only be admired. [Mar 2015, p.95]

Viet Cong aren't quite home yet, but they're getting there. [Mar 2015, p.100]

The music is too futuristic--and, more bizarrely, too rooted in Indian Ocean folk roots--ever to get weighed down in heaviosity. [Mar 2015, p.96]

While the material heads nowhere new, there's a good feeling to all that's happening. [Mar 2015, p.99]

This debut stands apart, not because it hails from St. Petersburg but for its speedy and electronically iced take on shoegaze. [Mar 2015, p.100]

The overall tone is one of forbearance rather than rabble-rousing provocation. [Mar 2015, p.100]

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

Odd, occasionally unsettling, always memorable. [Mar 2015, p.97]

The material is cleverly sourced. [Mar 2015, p.97]

The results are at first comically unexpected, then intriguing. [Mar 2015, p.94]

While Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth impress with the monolithic power of their noise, there's little else that compels here. [Mar 2015, p.94]

[The] third Egyptrixx album has a fidgety, unsettling quality. [Mar 2015, p.97]

Their debut exists in a musical moment, conjuring a freedom and thrilling abandonment in its hypnotic shuffle boogie and punky blues rock riffs. [Mar 2015, p.93]

You've heard it all before, but rarely done so well. [Mar 2014, p.98]

An album of studied precision and endless textures. [Mar 2014, p.95]