With hooks as deep as heartbeats, this has the sweep of the desert dunes in it. [Apr 2020, p.93]

These 21 carefully edited electronic jams have a distinctly new age feel, glacier-sized slabs of ambience occasionally disrupted by undulating or cluttering beats. [May 2020, p.89]

A thick braid of an album, each song a bundle of strands interweaving with next. [May 2020, p.94]

Rose Golden Doorways will undoubtedly repel and attract, but its sheer force is spellbinding. [Apr 2020, p.94]

Rejoice stands tall alongside both artists' greatest work. [May 2020, p.95]

Regularly transcend mere pastiche. [Apr 2020, p.86]

A free-floating space jazz run at Joni & Mingus's Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is typical of his approachable fusion. [May 2020, p.96]

Singer Barbora Patkova's soulful charge that brings a tighter focus to a set of roiling, otherworldly jams whcih sound like Can and Funkadelic getting high on Sun Ra's unfettered jazz supply. [May 2020, p.93]

Revisits some of his most famous tunes. [May 2020, p.90]

No one said living "woke" was gonna be easy, but Thick turn the friction into furious, satisfying pop. [May 2020, p.95]

Eventually capturing both the sickly magenta beauty and unnatural creeping dread of Lovecraft's alien world. [May 2020, p.90]

Sometimes, it fits and sounds glorious. ... But on other tracks it sounds like an Aphex B-side is bleeding in from the next room. Beneath the white noise, however, Moreland is in rich form. [May 2020, p.88]

A superlative crooner with grit, soul and impeccable phrasing, James caresses and finesses every syllable of his highly literate, deeply personal songs. [Apr 2020, p.88]

Strong and loose, political and personal, Pearl Jam get the balance absolutely right. [May 2020, p.84]

Elegant and haunting as the individual tracks may be, it's difficult to remain engaged throughout 75 minutes of music with such a uniform mood. [May 2020, p.89]

What's missing? A hot-shot producer. Turbocharge their tunes with studio oomph and jiggery-pokery, and Soul Motivators could fill floors worldwide. [Feb 2020, p.90]

Baxter Dury blossomed on 2017's Prince Of Tears. ... This sixth solo outing explores further that album's blend of mechanical funk and luxuriant orchestration of female-sung choruses and character monologues. [Apr 2020, p.86]

Removed from the living artist, it may one day be hailed as a great album. [Apr 2020, p.88]

A singer-songwriter back at the peak of her powers. [Apr 2020, p.94]

Bathed in hope and spiritual substance. [Mar 2020, p.93]

Tightly wound but eminently danceable songs with an earnestness that can seem a bit po-faced. [Apr 2020, p.96]

Migraines possible; good chance of transcendence, too. [Apr 2020, p.96]

At turns comforting and disturbing. [Apr 2020, p.95]

Confusing mix of glam-influenced punk and would-be party bangers a tad disappointing. [Apr 2020, p.93]

This is Wilson's most potent release to date, its title referencing a subtle fudging of classic country tropes with more modern textures. [Apr 2020, p.93]

It's Wobble's unmistakable geometric bass patterns which anchor these 11 collaborative tracks. [Apr 2020, p.89]

Hutchings has suggested his Ancestors work is an update of the griot tradition - weaving social commentary into seemingly harmless party pieces. We Are Sent Here By History achieves more: transforming impending doom into an affirmation of life. [Apr 2020, p.92]

It doesn't all work. ... But the doo wop-in-space Hope Hell High, the football chant-as-polemic punk rock of Motherfuckers Got To Go and the widescreen desert balladry of Love Is A Mind Control prove the Deap Vally girls should experiment like this more often. [Apr 2020, p.91]