A harrowing, clearly autobiographical dissection of a decaying relationship. [Sep 2001, p.109]

It's a record delivered with real verve and attack. [Sep 2016, p.111]

This is Parker's finest achievement yet, with the lavish soundscapes and dense atmospherics often anchored with undeniably catchy hooks. [Aug 2015, p.102]

Even if the arrangements can stray toward the vintage, the sisters' sublime voices ensure their songs always shine with startling clarity. [Jul 2014, p.107]

Less immediate than her band work, it's a record that is rewarding and quietly revelatory. [Nov 2019, p.112]

It's gloriously dark and downbeat stuff. [Nov 2001, p.130]

Insane, extraordinary. [Mar 2005, p.95]

If not Elliott's most inventive album, The Cookbook is certainly her most colourful and entertaining. [Aug 2005, p.124]

It's not always easy, but it is frequently brilliant. [Dec 2018, p.108]

It's as an articulation of grief that this record speaks most powerfully. [Jan 2019, p.106]

The best record of the three record of the three recorded with his new and far younger band Promise Of The real, it veers between raw fury an tender melodies. [Feb 2018, p.110]

[The songs] slow drift proves compelling, in a faintly Virgina Astley way. [Jan 2015, p.131]

If some of these drifting, piano-rich tunes aren't reworked into dream-state Ibiza sunset bangers by next summer then, frankly, the world is dancing to the wrong beat. [Mar 2013, p.98]

The familiarity of Ivy Tripp breeds disquiet, rather than contempt, its surface cracking like thin ice, revealing its depths. [May 2015, p.115]

Auerbach and Carney don't tear up their blueprint, but tripping out their sound suits them. [Jun 2014, p.102]

Rest And Be Thankful is as welcome as the first true summer's day in Argyll. [Aug 2015, p.109]

Glass Animals have mapped out a vivid, intoxicating soundworld of their own. [Jul 2014, p.107]

Splits evenly into out-and-out rockers and downhome folk. [Nov 2003, p.123]

Plastics is a deeply impressive debut. [Aug 2014, p.105]

Cause & Effect plays to their strengths. [Nov 2019, p.112]

L.A.-based quintet unleash positively euphoric debut. [Oct 2011, p.120]

Tindersticks once again turn the spaces and losses into songs of substance. [Jan 2020, p.114]

Strikes a winning formula of DIY integrity and big bucks sheen. [Mar 2006, p.110]

It sounds as you would expect: a desolate dreamscape punctuated by nervous drum machines. In other words, it's a bit Kid A. [Aug 2006, p.110]

It's an album that weaves in and out of domestic life and musical ambition, and somewhere in the knot of them lies something rather special. [Mar 2017, p.108]

One of the chiefs pleasure to be had from The Slow Rush is the sheer depth of sonic treats packed into each song. [Apr 2020, p.102]

[An] immediately fascinating, a cluttered, three-records-playing-at-once orchestral fantasia that--icing on the art-pop cake--is inspired by Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. [Jan 2015, p.131]

The music is fabulous, a sublime pulse of Hammond organ, trombone and piano. [Nov 2012, p.100]