A joy in itself, but watching the accompanying film to experience the full audio-visual wallop is a must. [Feb 2014, p.113]

A beautiful album that nudges a classic past into a brave future. [Jul 2016, p.109]

Hedben crafts the best album of his career. [Dec 2017, p.112]

An ideal Fall primer for the uninitiated. [Mar 2018, p.117]

This is an epic musical journey. [Nov 2013, p.120]

Hercules And Love Affair are at their best when they cut loose and damn the consequences. [Apr 2008, p.110]

Syro is an album that instantly connects. [Nov 2014, p.109]

This is a winner from start to finish. [May 2018, p.111]

Those same giddy vocals, rusticated, old-timey arrangements and lyrics combine childlike reverie with an ancient sense of wisdom and dread make it equally magical and rewarding. [mar 2012, p.106]

An awe-inspiring experience. [Sep 2012, p.100]

A Circle Without Having To Curve is a billowing transmission from some gigantic sullen hulk. Elsewhere texture, hiss and layered voices head into abstraction, but if you think he's afraid of revealing himself, the voice and guitar reprise Contain (Cedar Version) ends the album with a sweet re-entry to the daylight. [Aug 2016, p.110]

Sampha's lyrics are clever and his voice so inherently likeable that it works. [Apr 2017, p.116]

Unabashed whimsy merges seamlessly with melodious garage rock. [Jul 2003, p.100]

Aurally, Super Furry Animals are evolving into a hybrid of Blur and The Cardiacs. (Drawing) Rings Around The World, Shoot Doris Day and Presidential Suite are excellent, most of the remainder pass muster, but there's nothing to change anyone's world.

A leftfield classic. [Oct 2003, p.100]

Six albums in, Baxter Dury has realised a sound and lyrical approach that is unmistakably his alone. [May 2020, p.101]

The tension between invigorating, often exhilarating joyful music and disconcertingly bleak subject matter may be one hardwired into hip-hop tradition, but J Hus's innovative, genre-defying style and evocative, elliptical lyrics prove it can still be an intoxicating combination. [Apr 2020, p.107]

The electro-inspired beats and declamatory rhymes are just as uncompromising and unorthodox as before. [Oct 2013, p.107]

Cut, copy and paste this definitive record into your world. [Jul 2005, p.115]

On his impressive second album, the LA-born R&B auteur offers fresh options for mainstream urban pop. [Jan 2013, p.110]

Once I Was An Eagle is entirely Laura Marling's trip--beautiful, heartfelt, searching, sublime, and thrillingly open-ended. [Jun 2013, p.92]

A poignant revisiting of Whitsun Dance catches the profound power of this richly arranged album. [Aug 2020, p.105]

A record whose card-shuffling diversity proves to be its ace. [Oct 2019, p.113]

A wild indulgence, of course, and a big investment of time, but like 1999's 69 Love Songs, well worth it. [Apr 2017, p.115]

Washington's gift for euphonic arrangements and eagerness to explore new forms is evident throughout. [Summer 2018, p.115]

Deerhunter might be fascinated by the vanishing tricks people play, but Halcyon Digest is a thing of unmistakable substance. [Nov. 2010, p. 113]

An appropriately violent swansong, then. [Dec 2016, p.106]

Each of these fine songs could be sung by a blowsy, bruised Blanch DeBois. [Aug 2015, p.109]