These 13 songs do the simple things, but do them wonderfully well. [May 2005, p.106]

At its best, Other Worlds is sublime. [Nov 2012, p.106]

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]

An expertly fashioned LP from a duo who know how to add style to substance. [May 2019, p.115]

It's a minor-chord menace, their darker surf-steeped vibe driven by steady percussion and hypnotic basslines. [Apr 2013, p.101]

A refreshing listen. [Dec 2009, p.120]

In upbeat mode, he's made of stirring stuff, but the real wonder here is to be found when he drops a gear into hushed beauty and sun-dappled loveliness. [May 2012, p.101]

More accessible than Animal collective, weirder than MGMT, this is otherworldly pop music to make the head spin. [Mar 2010, p.103]

[Dandy is] not even the best thing here, as Fingers Crossed continues Hunter's chain of excellent 21st-century albums. [Oct 2016, p.107]

Showcases her luminous vocals, rich lyrics and subtle arrangements. [Sep 2005, p.120]

This is a great album first, and a great Christmas album second. [Feb 2017, p.115]

These are big, stately songs, packed with rue as much as brio. [Dec 2015, p.103]

A deranged and thrilling experience, there's been nothing from them to touch it since. [Dec 2012, p.122]

Getting close to these chilly, inscrutable songs is like trying to hug statuary, but their marbled beauty is impressive all the same. [Dec. 2011 p. 123]

Me and Armini isn't an immediate record--it's too opaque, too guarded for that--but as it gives up its secrets, it slowly moves its stuff into your mind, a strange cuckoo in the musical nest. [Oct 2008, p.151]

What Kasabian lack in orginality they more than compensate for attitude and exhilarating hysteria. [Jul 2009, p.112]

The bed springs chez Wegg-Prosser are clearly creaking. [May 2014, p.121]

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]

If the songs on St. Catherine are remarkably pretty, there's also a lurking sense that their beauty isn't built to last forever. [Aug 2015, p.104]

Everett comes on here like a less grizzled Tom Waits with a side order of Kurt Weill. [Apr 2006, p.113]

All [the tracks] are powerfully intimate. [Aug 2006, p.114]

[Start Together] reveals a remarkable output across punk, pop and rock for a band that you can't help but feel still had much to do, As of now, they still may do it. [Dec 2014, p.124]

As warm, strange and enchantingly off-key as the title suggests. [May 2007, p.127]

The sound of a band renewed, Always Ascending fizzes with the energy of a first album and lets Franz Ferdinand start all over again. [Mar 2018, p.106]

Robyn Hitcock, My Morning Jacket's Jim James and, taking the female characters' voices, Becky Stark and Shara Worden, are among those fleshing out the band, but all are no more than support to Colin Meloy and his very singular vision--and what a glorious big, bold and entirely bonkers one it is. [Apr 2009, p.104]

This mix of fearlessness, craft and believability is irresistible. [April 2012, p.90]

Truelove's Gutter is a beautiful album. [Oct 2009, p.113]

A far more rounded proposition than 2000's water-treading Chocolate Starfish. [Dec 2003, p.132]