With its Magic Fly synthetic hustle, single Fever pulses with the same reductive pop genius, but doubtless deterred by the laws of diminishing returns the Keys have eschewed ab blanket reiteration--with mixed results. [Jun 2014, p.91]

An absorbing, enthralling effort. [Jun 2014, p.91]

Life is rarely more tellingly captured in music. [May 2014, p.89]

Eclectic whimsicality--chugging blues gets a stadium guitar intro; horns add even more uplift to engaging Fountains Of Waynesque Big Times. [May 2014, p.91]

Ziggy never quite manages to be his own man here. [May 2014, p.86]

It's astonishing how lyrical just two guitars can be. [May 2014, p.94]

[Black Women is] the key cut on a third album that shows he's maturing impressively. [Apr 2014, p.97]

It's all a bit similar, and amazingly unmoving, until the last number. [May 2014, p.92]

The indie poppers stay true to their roots with a tuneful balancing of high-tempo and the laid-back. [May 2014, p.96]

Embrace is schizophrenic stab at modernity, bolting synths and clattering drum patterns to forgettable harmonies, with limp results. [May 2014, p.88]

III is third time lucky in all senses other than sadly-departed guitar visionary David Hackney being around to share in the joy it brings. [May 2014, p.87]

John Schmersal's quirky falsetto lights up this debut. [May 2014, p.96]

It's all Iggy-growl motorik country-boogie and modal psychedelic blues jams. [May 2014, p.96]

Cavernous drones suggesting messages from a reverberant brutalist cathedral somewhere out in the California desert. [May 2014, p.96]

Very promising young London singer. [May 2014, p.96]

Pop songs at warp speed in the vein of say, All or early Lemonheads. [May 2014, p.96]

A late-night drift into the abyss. [May 2014, p.96]

[A] set of exhilarating if unrelenting Weezeresque thrash pop. [May 2014, p.96]

Adroit instrumentation and elegant melodies from the NY quartet. [May 2014, p.96]

Unfidelity exhibits sonic DNA from all corners of pioneering electronica. [May 2014, p.93]

It peaks with the opulent nu-disco of Tempest. [May 2014, p.93]

Perhaps Terje pushes the eclectic envelope too hard, but dance albums are rarely this fresh, distinctive and evolved. [May 2014, p.93]

Ragan's fifth album is rock as much as roots. [May 2014, p.91]

[The Nocturne Diaries] is beautiful. [May 2014, p.91]

This is unashamedly traditional: committed, personal and really quite perfect. [May 2014, p.91]

Estoile Naiant is a work of excessive indirection and wonder that becomes terrifying only if you try to define its boundaries. [May 2014, p.90]

Mohawk finds him reaching an apotheosis. [May 2014, p.90]

What's lacking is the shock factor.... At its best, amid the oceanic dream-wave of melody and surreal verbiage that these reanimated Pixies still essay with style, Indie Cindy is worthy of full participation. [May 2014, p.90]