It's the curveballs, rather than the reliable Lanaganisms that make Blues Funeral such a powerul return. [Mar 2012, p.101]

As a calling card, it's as close to perfection as the title suggests. [Jul 2016, p.109]

A masterpiece of bombed orchestral elegance, at once expansive and intense. [Dec 2002, p.112]

Why didn't they just call it Supernatural II and have done with it? [Dec 2002, p.110]

A superbly restorative tonic for troubled times. [Sep 2020, p.108]

In every way, it's alive, but mostly, it's alive with possibility. [Jun 2011, p.112]

Treat Yourself With Kindness... calls to mind what Morrissey and Marr might have come up with if requested to soundtrack the closing credits of It's A Wonderful Life. [Mar 2003, p.102]

As always with this gem of a musician, all human life is here. [Sep 2012, p.113]

It's a strange and beautiful album, one that's hard to turn away from. [Nov 2014, p.102]

This is lush music to get lost in. [May 2020, p. 100]

The Chatham Singers furnish these 12 tracks of street crackle and pop with skeletal verve. [Jun 2020, p.94]

There's nothing here likely to be adopted as a stadium chant, but in its tethered imagination, Boarding House Reach is the most surprising and eccentric record White's made. [May 2018, p.110]

Brooding is the word for their claustrophobic jams, forged on skeletal guitar lines and smothered in reverb. [Dec. 2010, p. 112]

Classic lived-in country. [Apr 2009, p.107]

A supremely confident collection from an artist just gearing up for greatness. [Jun 2016, p.111]

They even give Madonna's I Deserve It a new level of dignity. [Jan 2004, p.118]

The W is largely a return to murky idiosyncratic form after 1997's filler-bloated Wu-Tang Forever. Weighing in at a svelte 60 minutes, it plays to the group?s main strengths: brutal hooks and scary ambience.

Thirty years in NIN sound reinvigorated. [Summer 2018, p.116]

Smart audio trickery and intriguing atmospheres draw the listener in and, overall, it's a real beauty. [Sep 2020, p.111]

His first album in more than 15 years sees him back atr the musical vanguard--thanks in large part to XL boss and producer, Richard Russell, whose arrangements brilliantly frame the 60-year-old's rich burr and terse street poetry with brooding electronica and stark blues handclaps. [Mar 2010, p.106]

The songs here are rougher, louder, and often more exciting than their "official" versions. [Nov 2000, p.123]

This irresistibly funky makeover feels like the emergence of a major new talent. [Aug 2017, p.108]

The enveloping crescendos of "Albatross" define the album's blend of beauty and pure power in a record that puts "classic" back into classic rock. [Apr 2010, p.106]

Most of Kish Kash sounds like the album they intended to make after Remedy. [Nov 2003, p.106]

It's difficult not to warm to any record that quotes Prefab Sprout's Cars And Girls in one breath and uses the word "phlebotomist" in the next. [Jul 2014, p.109]

This 131-track splurge still manages to throw up the occasional gem. [Sep 2012, p.116]

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

This is an electrifying collection of electronic music with heart and soul as well as dancefloor throbs. [Jan 2012, p.1222]