A substantial and richly evocative work. [Apr 2013, p.89]

180 is filled with such a sense of unyielding joie de vivre and spirit that you can't help but be seduced by its unfettered feel. [Apr 2013, p.88]

Producer Hal Willner has dug deep to improve on [the original Rogue's Gallery] and reckons he has a happier collection as a result. [Apr 2013, p.88]

Chelsea Light Moving's sound and fury certainly thrill. [Apr 2013, p.88]

[The songs] are among the most immediate he's recorded. [Apr 2013, p.88]

Happy or sad, these are fine songs. [Apr 2013, p.88]

An audibly irked record.... Girl Talk has balls and tunes. [Apr 2013, p.88]

Pale Green Ghosts is both novel and familiar. [Apr 2013, p.86]

The Next Day [is] Bowie's most impassioned and convincing work in decades. [Apr 2013, p.84]

A brace of curiously tuneful, bluesy-psych pop songs. [Apr 2013, p.98]

The odd over ethereal moment notwithstanding, the remainder of the album proves equally alluring. [Jan 2013, p.90]

Writing in a different meter results in parts of Sudden Elevation becoming more linear, less abstract than predecessor Innundir Skinni. [Mar 2013, p.89]

There's a peculiar tension in the way the stripped down electronic and acoustic percussion and Shemie's reverby incantations work together. [Mar 2013, p.89]

Foxx reaches pensionable age in 2013, but the creative fires still burn white hot. [Mar 2013, p.90]

An eclectic gem that namechecks Malcolm Gladwell's social psychological musing as an influence. [Feb 2013, p.91]

Lucinda Williams has labelled Regan "his generation's answer to Bob Dylan," and on this evidence, that doesn't feel like hyperbole. [Feb 2013, p.90]

Overall Anthems is a gutsy carer swerve from Carter who proves himself capable of crooning with swagger. [Mar 2013, p.94]

Long Island is alive and involving, creating a world of its own. [Mar 2013, p.87]

The music could overwhelm lesser singers but Lidell's astonishing vocals carry it off with remarkable elan. [Mar 2013, p.90]

A logical next step then, which stays the right side of MOR. [Mar 2013, p.96]

If you're the kind of listener who has come to associate outtakes from classic albums with meagre, dryly forensic spoils, prepare to be very pleasantly surprised by Disc 3.... Rumours reminds us why we should continue to indulge them. [Mar 2013, p.100]

There's no question that it's his most appealing work for ages, but still one wishes that the chilly spark on title track and Hey Little Bruiser could have been sustained throughout. [Mar 2013, p.94]

Be Your Own King is somewhat hobbled, though, by a flat, dense production from The Do's Dan Levy. [Mar 2013, p.89]

A blurred landscape of muffled beats warped tape and corroded ambiance that suggests club land euphoria. [Feb 2013, p.93]

The 13 numbers they've chosen are sung with respect and restraint. And beautifully. [Mar 2013, p.96]

The music's one-dimensional emotional range is the Achilles heels of an otherwise gracefully dextrous affair. [Feb 2013, p.90]

Although this change of surroundings gives the album an uneven feel, the charm of Gideon's Art Brut-like spoken-word missives is ever present, as is their sense of Dadist fun. [Feb 2013, p.90]

Inc. have taken pop-R'n'B out of the cynical genre tourism and into somewhere far more interesting. [Mar 2013, p.94]