Warm and addictive. [Oct 2013, p.112]

Lyrically and musically, as remarkable an album as you'll hear all 2014. [Mar 2014, p.119]

Splendid, splenetic stuff. [Apr 2003, p.102]

It's aged remarkably well and All My Love is breathtakingly beautiful. [Sep 2015, p.121]

A work of lovely, floaty wonder. [Oct 2017, p.103]

Her second album's pithy songs of turmoil, imperfect love and drinking bring the weight of personal life experience. [Dec 2017, p.110]

They pull it out of the hat in quite an extraordinary fashion here. [Jul 2012, p.94]

A decidedly loveable record. [Apr 2016, p.113]

The tunes are excellent throughout, with strong echoes of Cannonball-era Breeders. [Feb 2013, p.106]

A deeply involved performance such as this demands an involved listen, but with concentration (and maybe a little bit patience) Moogmemory marks a glorious return. [Apr 2016, p.103]

It's complex music but with enough of a melodic charm to hook you in, easy to appreciate but hard to fully grasp. [May 2016, p.104]

Vega's still small voice of calm remains where the action is,kin to early-'70s Leonard Cohen in her lyrics of enigmatic confession, tarot-casting romance and cool mystique. [Mar 2014, p.121]

The fact that Grace Jones actually made a run of visionary '80s albums has long been rather overlooked, but this luxurious reissue goes a long way to righting that wrong. [Jun 2014, p.124]

Without resorting to difficult time signatures or moaning about the desperate pain of it all, [Luke] Steele has found a wonky path away from rock's mor restrictive conventions while still engaging positively with the world. [Aug 2003, p.113]

Many will be quick to dismiss this as a shadow of 3 Feet High, but it's their loss when hip hop's as infectious and intelligent as this.

It features a clutch of terrific songs delivered with a sense of real elation. [Sep 2013, p.106]

All the freshness and ingenuity that made their 2009 debut such a revelation is here. [Oct 2012, p.111]

There's undeniably something new and intriguing going on here. [Jul 2012, p.95]

The bravery in hanging out such soiled laundry can't go unnoticed, and it's the album's greatest asset. ... The fact it's wrapped in such a lush indie-pop package only makes it more infatuating. [Apr 2018, p.106]

Angry, innovative and often ahead of the curve. [Feb 2012, p.111]

Ultimately, The Coral aren't doing anything they haven't done before, but the greatness of these songs is undeniable and the production is slyly inventive enough to to keep us hooked. [Apr 2016, p.115]

Here are songs that only the Pet Shop Boys could record. [May 2016, p.113]

Playfullly irreverent and magpie-like as ever, and stuffed with inspired pop weirdness and great titles. [May 2009, p.119]

Singer Pat Monahan has a Michael Stipe-esque voice: part whine part sneer, but with an added dollop of believeable pathos. On this second album, his four colleagues concoct intriguing backdrops... [#180, p.112]

He's at his best on the doom-laden What's So, where guitars clang like church bells as White Broods over soul-selling and eternal damnation. [Sep 2016, p.114]

[The DFA's] desk work on Automato's impressive debut raises the profile of their proteges. [May 2004, p.98]

Their most richly-coloured record to date. [Nov 2017, p.104]

Uncanny. [Sep 2014, p.108]

The result is as Russell surely intended. [Dec 2017, p.110]

It isn't perfect but it adds up to an intimidatingly assured opening shot from a major new talent. [Dec 2013, p.108]

This is perhaps their strongest yet, their angular sounds augmented by a succession of memorable hooks, any one of which could be the one to break them into the mainstream after 14 years. [Oct 2010, p.121]

Home Before Dark offers a dignified and, yes, hip addition to the Neil Diamond canon. [July 2008, p.110]

A wonderful counterpart to his book, and just as special on its own. [Jul 2020, p.110]

Jewellery is an extraordinary introduction to a unique talent. [Mar 2009, p.101]

She's still very much the real deal. [Aug 2020, p.111]

To reach this pop sophistication after four albums would be admirable. In two, it's awe-inspiring. [Aug 2009, p.105]

Monsters Of Folk haven't quite produced the great American record the title promises, but they're a pretty super group all the same. [Oct 2009, p.109]

When the quartet let loose, like on the screeching demonic cacophony of Island Epiphany, all hell breaks loose. [Jun 2013, p.96]

Delicate folk rock is hardly thin on the ground, but rarely is it tackled with such mastery. [May 2010, p.125]

His second LP plays to his familiar strength--that lightly Auto-Tuned voice--and a batch of R&B-friendly tunes with minimal instrumentation, the echoing paranoia of Watch Who You Tell and Call Me's sunny clatter being particular highlights. [Aug 2018, p.114]

A collection of vastly moving songs that will render stadiums as intimate as bedrooms. U2, Radiohead... Coldplay? It would seem so. [Sep 2002, p.98]

The Australian quartet's debut album justifies the fuss that followed its title track's bubblegum approximation of Nirvana. [July 2002, p.121]

As long as they continue to ask themselves difficult questions, and answer them with records as full of fire and vitality as Futurology, failure is not an option. [Jul 2014, p.113]

An astonishingly moving distillation of Eastern European melancholia with elegant histrionics a la Rufus Wainwright. [Dec 2006, p.141]

This homebrewed, spacious music can still sound pretty blissful, but the quality songs have a directness and variety that will please David Gray fans as much as the acid folk devotees. [Jul 2006, p.119]

Whatever language it's in, Le Kov casts a lovely musical spell. [Apr 2018, p.107]

What could easily have sounded contrived instead works wonderfully. [Jun 2013, p.96]

The songs sounds just as fierce 20 years on. [Jul 2014, p.124]

Curious, gorgeous and a little bit off its rocker. [Aug 2015, p.109]

A rip-roaringly varied listen. [Dec 2017, p.109]

Simple pleasure delivered in style. [Apr 2016, p.107]

Even at its most melancholy, there's a warmth and brightness to M. Ward's eighth solo album. [Apr 2016, p.110]

A characteristically warm and good-natured record, but it's also striking how adventurous and relevant they sound. [Apr 2016, p.108]

The vintage record store rummaging has given way to a more pared-back sound. Here, retro guitar tones and proggy breakdowns complement rather than dominate. [May 2018, p.114]

Longer, looser, less eager to impress, and more American than its predecessors ... Vampire Weekend's prettiest album is also their weightiest. [June 2019, p.106]

Dizzy Heights is a bold, wonderful affair. [Mar 2014, p.113]

Two Suns is an intoxicating, addictive album, a step on from "Fur And Gold" a leap into a galaxy of its very own. [May 2009, p.118]

As much as it recaptures some of their buccaneering early spirit, it also shows off some explosive new tricks too. [May 2013, p.108]

Each of the 11 new songs on Bottom Of The World twinkles mournfully, chamber-country meditations which blend the playful and sinister in his patented fantasia set in the US-Mexico borderlands. [May 2013, p.95]

Whether a fanbase reared on moshpit anthems is ready for such artful desolation remains to be seen, but as an exercise in skin-shedding and score-settling The Betrayed is brutally effective. [Feb 2010, p. 103]

While they may have broken the slacker's code, the results are worth it. [May 2011, p.115]

This splurge of hits and misses is a pure energy infusion. [Aug 2019, p.119]

Admittedly, her FM-friendly singalongs aren't rocket science, just fantastically effective. [May 2003, p.109]

The Return may feel long and complex, but time and space reveal a unique new voice. [Oct 2019, p.113]

Faithful singers could learn a secular trick or two. [Dec 2019, p.117]

A much better record than its predecessor. [Oct 2006, p.112]

Allen's mastery of rhythm holds this inventive album together. [Nov 2014, p.102]

No Blues is their best album yet. [Dec 2013, p.109]

There's an Everyman appeal to Once Upon A Time... that suggests a band on the verge. [Oct 2007, p.88]

Arc is a missive from the heart as well as the head. [Feb 2013, p.100]

Their second album brims with crunching guitars, subtle stabs of synth and--more importantly--a winning line in big, anthemic choruses. [Oct 2013, p.102]

Smart, anthemic and often desperately moving. [Dec 2011, p.137]

Loaded with delights... that highlight their soft, uniquely beautiful sound. [Sep 2004, p.135]

All in all, a brooding and brilliant record. [Oct 2017, p.103]

Lateral-thinking producer Jneiro Jarel builds complex but catchy soundscapes from bowel-shaking tuba loops, stuttering Casiotones and grime's muscle, as DOOM pinballs hypnotically through vivid metaphors and free-association rhymes. [Oct 2012, p.103]

Such bitter pills are sugared by some stellar Cure/Smiths-style indie arrangements, making this an uneasy treat. [Dec 2017, p.109]

Stronger than SFA's last outing Love Kraft, this will appeal to those who appreciate the gentler aspects of Rhys's day job. [Feb 2007, p.106]

It's quite a feat to produce music that works for the mind and the hips, but Ronson has pulled it off magnificently, with virtually every track sounding like a single. [Feb 2015, p.104]

11 strong songs which ache, break and twang as craftily as they do sincerely. [Jun 2017, p.110]

The end-times have rarely sounded so sweet. [Mar 2014, p.113]

Vibrant and outward-looking, the record has a buoyant, dancified energy that flows. [Oct 2017, p.103]

Things get really interesting once the early euphoria fades, with Jenny Hval collaboration Bungl (Like A Ghost) stirring eldritch poetry and fractured jazz into an enthralling mix. [Nov 2017, p.111]

Grumbling Fur largely inhabit their own wonderful world, dreaming up very old-school British psychedelia that hints at the rituals behind the privet and sigils on the parquet floors. [Sep 2014, p.109]

Electrifying, again. [Jan 2020, p.109]

Electronic showboating even the original authors would struggle to identify. [May 2006, p.138]

Untrue lives in the present, its more complex moods showcasing the emotional range that marks Burial out as more than just another bloke with a computer. [Jan 2008, p.108]

A worthy addition to the Clash canon. [Nov 2008, p.126]

While the ringtone-catchy Alive and fuzzed-up Stressy are obvious standouts, it's the reckless try-anything funk of Leader that holds best claim to being Flight's spirit guide. [Jul 2020, p.106]

Yet while these tracks might bring Nelly Furtado's Timbaland-fueled makeover to mind, there is more to She Wolf than glossy dance-pop. [Dec 2009, p. 124]

Out there, but compelling all the same. [#184, p.137]

A rich, multi-layered and utterly enchanting record. [Mar 2010, p.106]

It's big and it's clever.

The naysayer might dismiss it as an elaborate pastiche, but this would be to miss the point of an often intoxicating LP that's more than the sum of its parts. [Jul 2013, p.108]

The notoriously repressive Ceausescu-era authorities clearly didn't know what to make of Rosca, but his music sounds fantastic today. [Jul 2013, p.109]

While generational ennui smoulders in the lyrics, their main concern remains heartbreak and its vicissitudes. [Dec 2017, p.106]

Stevens's love for the region, its people and legacy is palpable and infectious enough to send the curious scuttling straight towards the bookshelves to discover more. [Aug 2005, p.137]

Here If You Listen evokes CSN&Y Deja Vu than a Croz solo LP. [Dec 2018, p.107]

Her crystalline, sparse voice shines on melancholic but dreamy break-up songs and dark, cinematic tracks. [Feb 2020, p.115]