The album is solid from start to finish

A mostly harmless exercise in selling records.

While the debut was clouded in hazy and understated dreamy melodies, Confess is far more direct and intense.

There are, of course, echoes of the past, but there is also something pleasingly fresh in the way DIIV take an age old sound and turn it into something magical that's at times deeply beautiful.

Mostly No [is] an album with good intentions but one that's flawed in its execution.

The potential is undoubtedly there, but Reptar's debut album suffers badly from the band's chaotic approach, as well as Ulicny's occasionally grating vocals.

Unsound is a smile-inducing slab of post-punk awesome.

Swing Lo Magellan affords generous breathing space to Dirty Projectors' music: a context in which new levels of unpretentious eloquence positively flourish.

The album can be quite a handful at times, but if in search for a post-rock record that makes so much of an impression in so little time, one need not look any further than this.

This is a perfectly OK record: no more, no less.

It's not perfect and there are two or three tracks that don't really work, but it's hard not to be won over by the LP as a whole.

Overall this disc is a well-made breeze of strong songs and great playing, but the moments of fence-sitting hold it back.

Despite some bland detours into the middle of the road, there are still enough good moments here to remind of her talent.

There are moments of raw beauty in some of this music.

Overexposed is rather patchy and its highs are countered by some fairly wretched lows.

Fortune is the kind of record that will please Brown's many deluded female fans, but we cannot with good conscience give it a single star.

So there are a couple of silly tracks - but then there were two silly Bennett sisters [in Austen's Pride and Prejudice]. Sadly, the remainder of the album is all Mary and no Elizabeth; devoid of life, wit, or energy.

>> is the humble, unpretentious sound of an artist pursuing a very personal and refreshingly unspectacular vision.

Rispah is a brilliantly sustained meditation that offers a full, enriching experience.

Write Me Back won't totally please R Kelly fans who crave the silly pleasures of Trapped In The Closet, but it is without doubt an excellent record.

While it is ever-so-slightly patchy, it would be unkind to suggest that Wild Peace is anything other than an impressive debut.

While it lacks the finesse of the band's previous work, somewhere in amongst all the bluster, soul-searching, adrenaline and anger, the record carves out a space where everything seems to fit together.

As it stands, Dub Egg is merely promising.

The Tarnished Gold sees them return sounding fresh and revitalised, delivering an album that more than matches their earlier output.

Witty and blessed with deftness Citizens! may well be, but we're still a bit bilious from our musical diet during the noughties to thoroughly appreciate it.

While it lacks the initial rush of Hunting My Dress, The House That Jack Built throws in surprises and twists and turns that are evidence of a satisfying progression.

There is enough control behind all the madness to ensure that the result remains just the right side of uncompromising.

The demos here may be cheaply recorded and lacking in sound quality but there is nothing lacking in the quality of the songs, which are seen in a new and very welcome light.