His songs are simple and instantly seductive. [Mar 2012, p.99]

A relentless, unstoppable beast of screeching, pounding ascendancy. [Mar 2012, p.97]

Sweet and to the point. [Mar 2012, p.97]

This album is barefaced '90s revivalism. [Mar 2012, p.97]

Tune out the background media noise and immerse yourself. [Mar 2012, p.94]

You can see why they've got another Golden Globe nomination for this, although most of the music here isn't in the film and the many highlights get lost in an eternity of approximately similar sonics. [Mar 2012, p.94]

A series of grand rippling hallucinations, unfolding ever outwards on the central melancholy theme. [Mar 2012, p.97]

For all of its gentle yet intense reflection, it's never overtly maudlin. [Mar 2012, p.92]

Cleverly, it mixes them [stadium rock and Celtic roots] both. [Mar 2012, p.99]

Animal Joy surfs similar channels to their last release, The Golden Archipelago, evoking stratospheric textures anchored down by melodically well-honed tunes. [Mar 2012, p.102]

From the get-go Freedom Of Speech takes no prisoners. [Mar 2012, p.93]

An admirably impassioned return. [Mar 2012, p.92]

An effortless conflation of over-amped belligerence and feisty pop mellifluousness. [Mar 2012, p.94]

The album works because McCartney treats the material with respect, exuding charm by the bucket-load. [Mar 2012, p.94]

[A] very fine third album. [Mar 2012, p.98]

Emotional yet chilled, this is an album to see you through winter's darkest, coldest days. [Mar 2012, p.99]

Paralytic Stalks is not an easy listen, but neither is it a good one. [Mar 2012, p.98]

The songs on Mr. M might be mostly slow and beautiful but they don't have the drifting dreaminess. [Mar 2012, p.96]

She has the same jagged, enchanting sensuality as Bjork. [Mar 2012, p.103]

Plumb is a delicious tasting menu of rock history. [Mar 2012, p.103]

This brisk, well-crafted follow-up maintains the feeling if a pop band masquerading as something harder. [Mar 2012, p.102]

Angels of Darkness, Demons of Light, Vol. 2 is a looser affair, showcasing Carlson's improvisational chemistry with long-term percussionist Adrienne Davies, bass player Karl Blau and cellist Lori Goldston. [Mar 2012, p.102]

There's more down the line, heart-on-the-sleeve songcraft secreted, near-guiltily, in the album's latter half. [Mar 2012, p.99]

Le Voyage is best when it sets the controls for the tribal prog of Sonic Armada or the ritual beats of Astronomic Club. [Mar 2012, p.92]

Old Ideas remain a quietly surprising album, full of grace, full of sadness, but also, most importantly, full of life. [Mar 2012, p.90]

The overall mood is one of muted, minor-key sadness, Sakamoto's clear, simple piano lines eroded and blurred by the melancholy atmospherics of Fennesz. [Feb 2012, p.97

Classic weep-alongs. [Feb 2012, p.99]

It's their slickest yet. [Feb 2012, p.99]