Despite its strengths, No Mythologies To Follow is still a touch green. [Apr 2014, p.115]

BNQT is a happy meld of snug-fitting millennial Traveling Wilburys and Gorillaz pop nous, a giant avert for the powerful attraction of opposites. [Jun 2017, p.102]

[It] finds her on familiar territory, offering 12 concise yet fully realised vignettes. [Oct 2006, p.124]

With some judicious skipping of tracks this is another eminently listenable set. [Oct 2014, p.109]

There's little to grasp here, the chiming guitar of 11 and blustery feedback of 6 excepted. [Aug 2015, p.106]

Ultimately, My Morning Jacket's diversity proves their partial undoing and Circuital remains a frustratingly hit-and-miss affair. [July 2011, p. 112]

Where the spiraling The Tide is a ringer for his old band, he's at his best when he's playing a velvet-voiced Mephistopheles on A ghost or leading a spectral New Orleans jazz band on through the low-key electronic soundscape of Lockless. [Apr 2020, p.109]

Two of Everything is a smorgasbord of delights and unexpected touches. [Oct 2011, p.130]

Lady From Shanghai laughs in the face of chart pop, but the listener can't help cackling along. [Feb 2013, p.108]

The more you ignore Bell X1, it seems, the better they get. [Aug 2013, p.94]

Pared back or not, The strength of these songs means Thompson can always stand alone. [Sep 2014, p.115]

Entirely instrumental, it retains the band's elasticated, rhythmic approach but stretches and softens it to create something much more atmospheric and evocative. [Aug 2015, p.105]

What holds it all together is Henderson's blank, uninflected vocals, though the resulting ambience couldn't be more self-consciously avant-garde if the album came packaged with wrap-around shades and a copy of White Light/White Heat.[Sep 2016, p.106]

The personal trauma behind pony was evidently tough, but hope has rarely sounded so fresh. [Dec 2019, p.110]

Very much an album of two halves. [Jul 2019, p.113]

Wisely, everything is as it was. [May 2013, p.111]

This folk-rooted album is ideal for listeners who think they're tired of folk music. [Nov 2012, p.94]

It's gorgeous, summery, dreamy pop. [Sep 2019, p.108]

There is occasional subtlety and drama amid the bombast. [Jul 2014, p.114]

Ambitious yet oddly affecting, wash day need never sound the same again. [Apr 2016, p.111]

Including songs by Neko Case and Nick Cave, this fine album reaches way beyond the church. [Mar 2016, p.115]

Groove Denied is a brilliant and varied sonic experiment that zigzags through early-'80s analogue synthscapes and early Cure. The second half returns him to more familiar wonky guitar territory, but it's a joy to hear him stretch out. [May 2019, p.115]

Bolstered by members of Dylan's band, the songs are built on buoyant '60s pop and Beach Boys harmonies soar alongside lively brass. [May 2013, p.103]

The resultant upgrade sounds like a ZX Spectrum wired to a jack hammer. Add the occasional pause for breath--as on the glacial "The Erskine Bridge"-- and Come Down With Me is a thrilling invitation. [Mar 2100, p.101]

Christians The Devil Wears Prada are in possession of the worst name is metalcore, yet their music is punishing. [Oct 2011, p.120]

This third LP has all the Afrobeat pioneer's brute power, if little of his subtlety. [May 2014, p.113]

Uncompromising as ever, Hidden Fields is an alien transmission from a band with a singular vision. [Oct 2015, p.115]