McGuire's guitar and tape loop examination of his own psycho-dynamics. [Mar 2014, p.96]

An intriguing LP that balances inner existential turmoil with external grace. [Mar 2014, p.96]

An uber-melodious debut.[Mar 2014, p.96]

These evocative originals, inspired by road trips, inevitably reconnect ti her Memphis roots. [Mar 2014, p.96]

[The album boasts] more accomplished songwriting than some bands manage in a career. [Mar 2014, p.96]

Musically, Stewart's ambition to marry first-album Suicide with Einsturzende Neubauten and latter-day Scott Walker has been realised with aplomb. [Mar 2014, p.95]

An ADHD, electro-fuelled crazy quilt. [Mar 2014, p.95]

Evoking cinematic cliches is almost unavoidable on a mutant, spirited debut whose diversity is its greatest asset. [Mar 2014, p.95]

There's nothing indistinct about the more congenial, festival-friendly direction of War Room Stories. [Mar 2014, p.95]

At every turn there are moves unarguably adjacent to Revolver, The Zombies, early Byrds, and, in the title track strident harmonies, The Mamas & The Papas.... The tunes throughout, though, are original, and infectious. [Mar 2014, p.94]

An unadorned diamond in the rough, and his best record. [Mar 2014, p.94]

It's this continued need to feed her multi-platinum beast that stops the album from being the post-modern wheeze it could have been. [Mar 2014, p.94]

Haze's impetuosity may've harmed Dirty Gold's commercial prospects, but the purity of her intent speaks volumes. [Mar 2014, p.94]

This is a very organic, modern album. And it's brilliant. [Mar 2014, p.93]

An array of session superheroes fill the album with crackling electricity. [Mar 2014, p.93]

Kidjo is in scintillating form. [Mar 2014, p.93]

This is the sound of a band making a bold, if not entirely original, creative leap. [Mar 2014, p.92]

Tinariwen still speak to the world as outsiders, but now they are telling us more about ourselves than we knew before. [Mar 2014, p.92]

Blood and religion, sin and redemption are as key to Biram's music as country, punk, blues, spirituals and good-ol'-boy rock.... There's great examples here. [Mar 2014, p.91]

Swaying choruses and gutsy musicianship.... there's life after the circus has left town. [Mar 2014, p.93]

A melancholic late-night album, then, but one that really sounds beautiful. [Mar 2014, p.91]

The result is a dazzlingly crafted bunch of hazy, West Coast pop gems stuffed with Santanaesque six-string wizardry. [Mar 2014, p.91]

The quartet's attempt ti create something like The Chemical Brothers' patchwork futurism, it is influenced by frontman Jack Steadman's global travels, but ends up sounding like a bunch of Gap Yah students discovering foreign climes fir the first time and leaning too hard on the console's Arcade Fire 2007 button. [Mar 2014, p.90]

This potent return affirms Finn heeds his own advice. [Mar 2014, p.90]

Dead is visceral, propulsive and bursting with life. [Mar 2014, p.88]

The overhaul, surely, needed to be much more far-reaching. [Mar 2014, p.88]

The wait has been worth it. [Mar 2014, p.88]

Pleasant but risk adverse. [Mar 2014, p.88]