Those who investigate Heartbreak Pass may find themselves enthralled. [Jun 2015, p.107]

This one feels more grounded, less frantic and, despite that constant pulsing movement, more at home. [#361, p.109]

As entertaining as it is impressive. [Mar 2017, p.115]

Garden of Spirits up singular aural magic from today's mood of global dread. [Mar 2017, p.113]

Grown Up is a personal diary magnified to the scale of an IMAX screen. [May 2017, p.103]

The more Khan sets the pace, the more all three fly. [Jun 2017, p.112]

Bananas but in a good way. [Jan 2018, p.106]

Beneath their silly-string riffs are nuanced screamers. [Jun 2018, p.114]

Niggling familiarity is a recurring issue here. [Jan 2019, p.111]

It's an excellent record that both hits immediately and gets better with repeated listens. [Summer 2019, p.112]

Throughout, the Horse prove their value over more polished ensembles, powering these naive constructs to a pure transcendent realm. [Dec 2019, p.113]

One of the chiefs pleasure to be had from The Slow Rush is the sheer depth of sonic treats packed into each song. [Apr 2020, p.102]

A set of songs that can be chilling but never cold. [May 2020, p.109]

Their music conjures the Sahara via a hypnotic desert blues that informed by both Malian folk music and their love of Western bands such as Pink Floyd and Can. [Jun 2020, p.106]

Both albums are lovely in the way that only Lambchop can be lovely. [combined review of both discs; Mar 2004, p.112]

Miss Anthropocene is not quite as brilliantly weird as its predecessor, but is certainly compelling enough to maintain Grimes' status as one of the most fascinating pop stars on the planet. [May 2020, p.105]

There are moments in early listens of the album when the attention begins to meander, only to be drawn back in by a lyrical quirk, or a sudden musical volte face, so that by the sixth roll about the turntable this seems a wholly differently textured record to when you began. [Mar 2019, p.121]

[A] terrific collaboration on DeLorean's life story. [Mar 2008, p.108]

The dual-drumkit, tribal incantations and ominous drones have a pleasing menace but when you factor in the "concept"... patience starts to wane. [Mar 2006, p.111]

Lekman is an intriguing bedsit poet whose whispered ramblings can sometimes melt the heart. [Mar 2006, p.108]

Against the odds, the band have managed to keep things small and strange, and learned a few thrilling new tricks along the way. [Apr 2006, p.110]

These are languidly addictive songs that barely seem there on first listen but soon emerge from the mist to take up residence in your life. [Jul 2017, p.107]

Loneliness and melancholy rarely sound this positive and on more upbeat tracks such as Two Cold Nights In Buffalo, Andrews happily confronts and owns her life choices. [May 2018, p.104]

If the songs themselves sometimes seem to float by without fully grabbing the attention, when the melodies rise above the textures, as in The Blue Nile-style ache of Send Me Home, Lanterns On The Lake give us a glimpse of what might make them truly special. [Dec 2015, p.109]

In crafting their best album to date, the Leicester quartet will almost certainly haunt the charts and the airwaves for many, many months to come. [Oct 2011, p.114]

Recorded in 11 days in Nashville and LA, National Ransom sees Costello continuing his obsession with bluegrass and Americana, under the watchful eye of producer T-Bone Burnett. [Dec. 2010, p. 104]

A broken heart has long been the conductor for Adams's talent--it's a testament to the quality here that he sounds so thoroughly broken this time. [Mar 2017, p.107]

Teenage Fanclub may just have made their best record yet. [Oct 2016, p.110]

Slick, wonderful album. [Aug 2018, p.114]

An album of great craft, emotion and warmth. [Apr 2005, p.125]

An intoxicating listen that's well worth experiencing for yourself. [Dec 2012, p.109]

There's a lot going on, but Welch never confuses breadth with depth. [Aug 2009, p.98]

A varied and hugely absorbing record. [Feb. 2012 p. 107]

It's an impressive art-rock construction, just not one that easily fits into every space. [Mar 2019, p.118]

There may be tears if he later goes elctric, but for now this falls just the right side of pastiche. [May 2010, p.127]

There are moments... as good and chart-friendly as anything by Royksopp or Mylo.... But most of the time they prefer to trade in dreary whimsy. [Jun 2006, p.116]

Politics seldom sound this heartfelt and honest. [Oct 2017, p.108]

There's serious craftmanship here. [Feb 2018, p.108]

With repeated listens, [Geometry] grows in stature, full of intriguing neo-psychedelia. [Oct 2005, p.121]

Resurgent indie icon with added Drums, Cribs and Franz Ferdinand. [Oct. 2010, p. 105]

It's a bedroom album, albeit an intelligent, challenging one. [Jan 2008, p.110]

A career-best mind-melter. [Sep 2018, p.117]

Throughout, Grace's gift of melody is only surpassed by her candid lyricism. [Oct 2016, p.105]

It's the album's introspective second half which delivers the punch. [Mar 2018, p.109]

Missy and Timbaland give us what we've come to expect--the sexiest, most ear-popping, jaw-dropping fusion of old-school rap tribute, sparse R&B, mutant bhangra, and beat innovation on Planet Pop. [Feb 2004, p.100]

A vibe of maverick playfulness married to fabulous tunes. [Apr 2002, p.106]

There's plenty of regret and "emotional disgust," but it's applied with piercing guitar lines that resemble a soppier Interpol. [Mar 2004, p.112]

Alkaline Trio subvert their perky, zinging three chord mall-punk with misanthropy, melancholy and alcohol-sodden, world-weary wisdom. [Jun 2003, p.92]

A dense, fascinating, idiosyncratic and accomplished art rock album.

Can be summed up succinctly: Damon Albarn sings The Smiths. [Nov 2004, p.130]

Surprisingly conventional. [May 2007, p.124]

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

Fans of Real Estate in particular, will be in ecstasy. [Jun 2016, p.117]

Fusion of nerdiness and fun. [Summer 2018, p.109]

Powerful soul medicine best taken a track at a time. [Nov 2012, p.101]

Smooth and intermittently sublime it may be, but their previous weirdness is much missed. [Jun 2006, p.117]

Like a musical Bill Hicks, Snider's easy humour expresses his nonetheless serious message with a grace and poignancy few can muster. [Jun 2012, p.96]

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]

There's scarcely a moment here that doesn't light a fire. [May 2017, p.100]

'I Heard Wonders' and the title track are standouts, blissed-out epics suggestive of U2 tangling with 'The Jesus And Mary Chain,' while instrumentals 'Story Of The Ink' and 'Theme/IMC' radiate desolate beauty. [Oct 2008, p.147]

This second album packs sock-it-to-me punch aplenty in 12 tunes that just happen to be about the Lord. [Sep 2014, p.114]

Like Talib Kweli... she mixes precise diction with writing that's high on observation and metaphysical promise. [Dec 2004, p.137]

Fans will be baffled, but this is magnificently deranged stuff. [Nov 2006, p.147]

Inevitably, though, there's an unevenness to the improvised soundscaping. [Mar 2005, p.101]

The Stand-In succeeds in sounding expansive without losing any of its intimacy. [Apr 2013, p.109]

Supernature sounds brilliantly here and now. Less coldly perverse than Black Cherry, it's also a lot of fun. [Sep 2005, p.110]

This debut album is free of the scowling raps that made grime such an abrasive prospect the first time round. [Nov 2012, p.104]

A house album that strips out the weaknesses while putting boosters under the strengths. [Aug 2015, p.113]

It all peaks on Raw Language, distorted saxophone and choral voices speaking together with thrilling intensity. [Jul 2017, p.107]

Hedley makes no apology for his love of country's golden age, ad where naysayers might cry "pastiche," plenty more will be happy kicking up their heels on the hayride. [May 2018, p.91]

Enigmatic dubstep maestro's spooky follow-up. [Aug. 2011, p. 127]

It's not as obviously retro as, say, techno DJ Paul Woolford's recent Special request project, but there are similar flashbacks to the darker end of '90s drum 'n' bass. [Mar 2014, p.108]

As homeopathic remedies for heartache and life's unkindness, these reflective songs are persuasive and when the group decide to fly with the moment-seizing, easy-psych These Days Are Mine, it's doubly invigorating. [Feb 2013, p.105]

The performances reflect his wind-down way. [Apr 2014, p.96]

The album's first half is anchored by the hypnotic undertow of Pulls, but the mood intensifies later with RGB's distortion beats and Bird Milk's cocky electro-strut proving Gallear's at his best when sparring against more robust rhythms. [Dec 2014, p.109]

It's pleasing too, this time, to hear Adams singing unadorned and less accompanied; it lets the melody run uncluttered and those brilliant lyrics step forward. [Apr 2016, p.101]

Ultimately, though, White Lies are running to stand still. [Mar 2019, p.120]

A vigorous, if patchy comeback. [Jan 2020, p.114]

Elegantly downbeat, Soldier Of Love sparkles as a whole rather than as a collection of parts. [Mar 2010, p.107]

This collection of 12" releases from the last year is breathtakingly beautiful. [Nov 2012, p.98]

Orc is an incredibly full-on record. [Oct 2017, p.107]

With their 11th studio album, they've succeeded in not becoming crap quite admirably. [Dec 2004, p.126]

The songs aren't quite up to the mark. You can't fault the performances though. [Dec 2007, p.121]

Contains more than its fair share of exquisite melancholy and careering abandon. [Nov 2005, p.123]

Pop doesn't get much more gloriously trashy than this. [Apr 2003, p.108]

Midway through, however, Karl Hyde stretches himself too far with the minimal This Mortal Coil-styled ballad SKYM, exposing the weaknesses in his singing voice.

A screw is definitely loose somwhere, but so what? [Oct 2004, p.128]

Though head-spinning, this collision of ideas retains some cohesion thanks to Gelb's sun-scorched songwriting that sees his acoustic alt-country efforts, in particular, shine. [Oct 2004, p.123]

Sonically, his second solo effort is dry and unimaginative. [Feb 2003, p.97]

When Harvey stretches herself things really become interesting. [Jun 2004, p.100]

Existential fatigue and self-interrogation--these themes and more are all, somehow, transmitted by her lullaby-soft delivery without ever having their intensity muted. It's a neat trick, and one that Mothers do better than most. [Apr 2016, p.111]

Refreshingly, nothing outstays its welcome, not even nine-minute closer 'Massage The History.' [Jul 2009, p.124]

Yak shoot from the hip with an impetuous first-timers' racket that's rarely short of breathtaking. [Jul 2016, p.113]

Sexsmith's best record since his self-titled second album of 1995. [Jun 2006, p.119]

Confusion's left in its wake, of course, but such is the price of the peaks. [Oct 2017, p.100]

Confident Music for Confident People largely succeeds in maintaining the hi-NRG entertainment. ... It comes unstuck, though, when the sugary fun becomes simply irritating, as on the bratty C.O.O.L Party. [Jun 2018, p.109]

The subtle rhythms of Nigerian percussionist Lekan Babalola giving something new to Wilson's versions of great old songs. [Aug 2008, p.145]

One very minimal idea being stretched over 11 songs to the point that it starts to look very washed-out indeed.