There are grand arrangements and barbed bon mots in the style of Randy Newman and Harry Nilsson, but what's most striking are the more restrained moments. [Mar 2014, p.94]

This is a very real example of "that difficult second album." [Mar 2014, p.93]

On the whole, they succeed by taking a careful layered approach. [Mar 2014, p.100]

All told, a spellbinding journey. [Mar 2014, p.100]

Nobody's expecting Steve Earle & The Dukes to break new ground, but when they break sweat, Terraplane comes to life. [Mar 2014, p.100]

Ain't nothing original, but it feels--and sounds--mighty fine. [Mar 2014, p.98]

Though a very beautiful whole, the mid-tempo Picture You is samey and only breaks its mood on Fryshusfunk. [Mar 2014, p.98]

Nothing here is ever structurally predictable, nor is it all cacophonous. [Mar 2014, p.98]

A few shuffling moments suggest Sunday pub lunch surrounding by Bugaboos, but when Gonzalez hits his meditative stride--Every Age's there-is-a-season stateliness, the post-rock smudges of What Will---he owns the room. [Mar 2014, p.98]

An effervescent, ebullient record. [Mar 2014, p.97]

A multifaceted--yet cohesive--creation that burnishes anew the golden age of space exploration. [Mar 2014, p.93]

A vivid, pulsing rhyme banquet that's out-there, edgy and kaleidoscopic. [Mar 2014, p.96]

More deliciously downbeat analog instrumentals. [Feb 2015, p.96]

For unswerving fans only, and not of Pink Floyd. [Feb 2015, p.96]

This extraordinary record is more refreshing burst than last gasp and its timelessness speaks more to life than death.

He sounds the most determined he has in over two decades. [Feb 2015, p.94]

These self-penned songs feel so timelessly authentic they might have been dredged from the deep well of traditional British Isles song from which Roberts regularly sips. [Feb 2015, p.95]

Their most remarkable record in years. [Feb 2015, p.95]

There's tear-in-the bear country, an angry field song, but the killer is Sorrow's shine. Classic Jim White. [Feb 2015, p.95]

Brainy music is back--about time. [Feb 2015, p.95]

Its echoes of '60 Brit Invasion rock, arch lyrics and prime Pollard song-title jibber will sound more familiar. [Feb 2015, p.96]

This is a fine celebration of a finely poetic band. [Feb 2015, p.103]

Newcomers won't fail to be charmed by an album that channels all four Velvets albums at different moments, in the process of locating YLT's own unique voice. [Feb 2015, p.102]

An eerily rootless modern drift through the electronic depths of Tarkovsky's Zone. [Feb 2015, p.96]

This trio's future pop debut is almost synthetically pristine. [Feb 2015, p.96]

Witchy and hypnotic. [Feb 2015, p.95]

[A] wonderfully scrappy debut. [Feb 2015, p.95]

In total, a pleasant, charm-filled release but no great addition to the Nelson canon. [Feb 2015, p.95]