It's not easy to make Sabbath-style proto-metal sound fresh, but Black Mountain have a way of writing songs that go to the places you hope they will without descending into cliche. [Oct. 2010, p. 92]

Heart-melting second album from Icelandic folk minstrel. [Oct. 2010, p. 92]

Kurt Cobain-worshipped Glaswegians' break 20-year silence. [Oct. 2010, p. 92]

It all adds up to more willful magic from Plant. [Oct. 2010, p. 94]

False Priest is a blur of swings and roundabuots, the sheer ambition of its crazed vision propelling it through any lull. [Oct. 2010, p. 96]

The Austin Doors ramp up the psych-pop tunes. [Oct. 2010, p. 97]

Flamingo is, for all intents and purpose, the next Killers record. [Oct. 2010, p. 106]

Premiership stuff! [Sep 2010, p.103]

The album is a masterclass in elegiac navel gazing. [Oct 2010, p.90]

His previous album Midnight At The Movies was good, perhaps not Americana Music Award-winning good, but I'm not in charge. This one, However is way better, an album I wanted to play again as soon as it was done. [Oct 200, p.101]

Les Savy Fav hunker down to return to what they do best: a masterful combination of post-hardcore energy, tight white funk and playful art-school abstractions. [Oct 2010, p.104]

It's been worth the wait. [Oct 2010, p.103]

This is not the James of Sit Down vintage, which means there's still life in the old dogs yet. [Oct 2010, p.103]

With Klausener diving headlong again into elemental metaphors, No Ghost could easily become Garvey's album of 2010. [Jul 2010, p.94]

New York's post-punkers are mooder than ever. [Oct. 2010, p. 90]

Three LPs in a year is only a good idea if you have enough songs. [Oct. 2010, p. 94]

Almost impossible to replicate in the studio, this is the level of energy and conviction which drives the album as newly buoyant Thompson discovers his second wind. Scintillating. [Sep 2010, p.93]

Isla feeds on Steve Reich mathematics, Radiohead dread, African desert grooves and ECM northern melancholy to travel into a new, chiming cavernous sound-world that is both exotic and hypnotic. [Nov 2009, p.100]

Familial is an acoustically plucked, feet-on-the-ground record, Selway's fragile and inviting voice a delightful match for his slightly anxious, if misplaced, self-doubt. [Sep 2010, p.98]

Papa Roch no doubt think there's venom in songs like Hollywood Whore--and they're certainly more visceral heard live here--but these ears just hear the low-IQ goofiness of Motley Crue combined with the stylistic similarities of rockers-by-rote Nickelback. [Sep 2010, p.96]

Man Alive is daisy-fresh, and reaching levels of unexpected bliss on the album's three ballads. [Sep 2010, p.99]

US party band !!!'s fourth is a holiday record, full of movement and heat and things that feel tired and cheesy at home, but are good, sleazy fun when you're away. [Sep 2010, p.98]

They've surpassed the Nancy Sinatra/Lee Hazelwoood comparisons to create an intense, fluid sound that's uniquely their own. [Sep 2010, p.96]

Rivers is a record that will haunt you long after you've heard it. [Sep 2010, p.99]

Creativity sometimes croaks when domestic bliss walks in, but not here. [Sep 2010, p.96]

Special Moves/Burning might just serve as a fittingly monolithic monument to their work to date. [Sep 2010, p.98]

Clocking in at under half-an-hour, the album proves a short, sweet delight. [Sep 2010, p.92]

Gently is how Carey does it, and he does it well. {Sep 2010, p.102]