A wonderful album that exists in its own little world. [#361, p.112]

A couple of other tracks veer too close to pastiche, but taken as a whole, this is a rich, brave, eloquent piece of work. [Sep 2019, p.108]

If his production has lost a little funkiness it's gained buckets of emotive power. [Aug 2013, p.100]

Sex & Food is more grounded, focusing on such concerns as the state of the world. Yet it's all wrapped in warped, layered music as complex as the mess we're in. [May 2018, p.114]

A laid-back affair clouded with melancholy. [Sep 2006, p.109]

Forever Turned Around shares the warm textures that made its predecessor so endearing, but finds the band's fortunes looking up. [Oct 2019, p.114]

What sounds difficult at first unfurls with force over repeated listens, veering from the chant-driven 'Molalatladi' to 'Lakeside's' space rock reverie. [Oct 2009, p.108]

Crosseyed Heart sounds fantastic and beautifully put together. [Oct 2015, p.110]

The characters and stories that Oberst sketches out have never been so fully realised. [Jul 2014, p.112]

British rapper ups the stakes with boundary-stretching pop turn. [Oct 2011, p.94]

He makes a quantum leap forward on his new album. [May 2011, p.112]

A tightly constructed record, its hushed instrumentation and Southern Gothic lyrics give it a melancholic mood, one that Bondy handles beautifully. [Dec 2009, p. 117]

So intimate and sad you can almost see the candles flickering. [Mar 2004, p.110]

[Control] finds Bazan wearily retreading themese of religion and relationships. [May 2002, p.119]

The glacial tones and chimes that the Velvet Underground modelled on Sunday Morning are invoked once too often. But, beyond this, Sandoval's sedated, spellbound voice remains a remarkable presence. [Nov 2001]

Either Yorke’s lyrics are better this time, or the comparative voluptuousness of the vocal performances make it easier to tune in, or we’ve finally grasped what he’s been getting at since abandoning OK Computer’s more straightforward man-vs-society musings.

Music that makes you 10 percent sleazier than you were--now where's that dancefloor? [Jul 2004, p.110]

Despite the embarrassment of riches, though, there's also a lot of plain old embarrassment. [May 2016, p.110]

Succeeds in sounding exotic. [Jun 2006, p.115]

[Secret Machines] have pruned back the vast sonic expanses of 2004's full-length debut album, focusing instead on brevity and melody. [Apr 2006, p.120]

He resurfaes as a country-tinged singer-songwriter of poise and substance. [#361, p.108]

Hynes can't resist tinkering with the formula and a pair of incongruous rap cameos disrupt a sketchy second half during which the feeling develops that Hynes is still holding back some of his best ideas for stars of a greater magnitude than himself. [Jan 2014, p.118]

The loose-limbed beats, fuzzy keyboards and faraway trumpet on Which One Of You Jerks Drank My Arnold Palmer? are loungecore at its best, while The Daily Routine's distortion is full of atmosphere. [Feb 2010, p. 103]

There's enough flickers of former greatness within to be glad he's stil there. [Dec 2007, p.120]

A true coming together. [Mar 2018, p.113]

A highly original two-disc set that as precious as it sounds, adpats poems from such diverse sources as ee cummings ans Gerald Manley Hopkins. [May 2010, p.124]

Mostly the results are pleasingly wry and wise. [Sep 2005, p.118]

She's still in her element luxuriating in that crisis point where comfort is soured by paranoia. ... Relative stability suits her just fine. [Nov 2019, p.112]