A delight. [Apr 2020, p.95]

A transcendent album, From This Place is possibly the Missouri fretboard maestro's most impressive opus yet. [Mar 2020, p.91]

Buck's guitars are supportive throughout, inspired by Haines's alternative universes. [Apr 2020, p.94]

A fine album is in here, but on this evidence, embracing the instinctive over the reflective might have been a better strategy. [Apr 2020, p.89]

Arranged with exquisite care, not a swooning backing vocal, Gram Parsons echo or Brian Eeno-influenced synthesizer out of place. [Apr 2020, p.89]

An album of unashamed emotional purgation. ... Swamp's late renascence is wonderful. [Apr 2020, p86]

James Hunter may have a new band from New York but they swing like his old one, and it's mostly business as usual here, with Hunter's new batch of songs sounding just like the old songs he's influenced by. [Apr 2020, p.94]

It's a giant leap forward for one of the most original voices around. [Mar 2020, p.84]

The best protest albums generally come bathed in their own brand of musical sunshine and Cornershop's joyous post-Brexit call to arms is no exception to the rule. [Apr 2020, p.86]

These loose, predominantly acoustic arrangements area fine fit for Malkmus's usual shtick; shaggy, ambulatory songs full of odd twists and rococo angles that seem designed to undermine pretension rather than amplify it. [Apr 2020, p.90]

Strong new jams. [Feb 2020, p.96]

A tightly zipped, anxious, often menacing trawl through personal challenges, offset by Caribbean vocals and rhythms and collaborations. [Mar 2020, p.96]

You need to pick through the later albums to find some occasional moments of brilliance. although if you unconditionally love well-executed '70s funky-soul, it's all good! [Mar 2020, p.105]

There's much to enjoy in his artistic arc. [Mar 2020, p.107]

A gimlet glare cast not downwards but right between your eyes. [Mar 2020, p.107]

[Teenage Kicks is] arguablt not even the best song on this compilation. Wednesday Week's gorgeous melody, You've Got My Number's killer riff and the haunting, fragile Julie Ocean are superb, while we can even forgive them for their Human League-baiting My Perfect Cousin. [Mar 2020, p.101]

The three October US shows, top-drawer soundboard recordings that have been around for years, are full of those supersonic instrumental flights that are so dependent on mood. [Mar 2020, p.1032]

Songs to keep returning to with no hope of ever exhausting their meaning. [Apr 2020, p.84]

Thanks to its exquisite craft, and Remy's feel for her characters, that project finds its finest expression yet in Heavy Light. [Apr 2020, p.86]

Gigi Masin bathes us in pure sunlight for 90 minutes. Emotional, but never over-wrought. [Feb 2020, p.91]

it's unashamedly full-on, Cro-Magnon stuff, but this chaos is often glorious. [Apr 2020, p.87]

He keeps the core of material such as The Nearness Of You and My Blue Heaven spare and the tone intimate. [Mar 2020, p.94]

Tastefully gauzy production elevates Indian-based KK's indie-psych pop second. [Mar 2020, p.96]

Brutally honest lyrically and deliciously more-ish in its rhythmic, electronic intensity. [Apr 2020, p.94]

In all, a cherishable tribute to the vitality of the right-on gospel group whose strides into soul still echo today. [Mar 2020, p.103]

Some of his best songs yet. [Mar 2020, p.88]

A transporting, densely layered record which retains a certain lyrical opacity. [Mar 2020, p.89]

The absence of between-song chat makes the experience unnecessarily remote. [Mar 2020, p.106]