Brush off the buzzing novelty, though, and there is much to admire. [Nov 2013, p.118]

The work of a richly creative entity still in the ascendant, those with a mind to will drink deep. [Mar 2014, p.116]

The reverse-order approach does remind you that he has sustained startlingly well, and perhaps as importantly, that he's still in the game. [Jan 2015, p.135]

The result is uniformly deft, sumptuous and moving. [Apr 2018, p.110]

It's a journey that's wildly eclectic, hard to endure through every tangled turn, but impossible not to love. [Jan 2019, p.117]

While partly rooted in grief, the songs here see magic in the mundane, the music's dreamy qualities fracturing into hallucinatory passages of cut-up vocals. [Dec 2019, p.109]

A mind-bogglingly diverse four-hour-plus odyssey. ... A stand-alone single-disc sampler featuring 10 DRIFT highlights ranks as Underworld's finest long-player since 1999's Beaucoup Fish. [Dec 2019, p.114]

Direct, alert, questing, it's a record that powerfully refuses to settle down. [Summer 2020, p.107]

His originality peaked in '74, but for groovy, tuneful pizazz, Wings Of Love takes it even higher. [Jun 2013, p.115]

Their sonic ingenuity enhances even the most basic garage-rock templates. [Sep 2001, p.122]

His voice remains charming, devilish-yet-wise, and his delivery as beguiling as ever. [Nov 2014, p.109]

[The Mavericks'] sound refreshed, recharged and better than ever. [Feb 2013, p.106]

An album that advances the sound of LCD Soundsystem and more than justifies their return, while retaining all that was brilliant about them in the first place. [Oct 2017, p.98]

Little Sparrow mixes its trad tendencies with tunes, lovely instruments, and best of all, Parton's personality.

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

Poignant beyond words... but never mawkish. [Dec 2003, p.140]

Some of the shorter tracks feel like distractions, but when the fragile mixture of field recordings, samples from radio broadcasts and twanging folk instruments comes into focus, the results are quietly fascinating. [Dec 2003, p.120]

Part Sly Stone, part raving Baptist minister, Cee-Lo proves he's every bit as exceptional as his neighbours. [May 2004, p.100]

Chai specialise in indie-pop confections, but lean in close and you're swept into an anarchic whirlwind. [May 2019, p.108]

It's a sensational return. [Sep 2017, p.115]

Toronto six-piece deliver a killer concept album. [July 2011, p. 113]

Nothing here is essential, but there will always be enough completeist to warrent airing of Dylan's old laundry. [Nov 2008, p.127]

It's a record for dusk, for dawn, and for all of the dark corners in which you might find yourself in between. [Apr 2014, p.109]

It's another masterwork from a group of no peers. [Sep 2020, p.113]

Inventive and technical, it's death metal with a brain. [Jul 2012, p.102]

This a rare and colourful leap forward. [May 2013, p.102]

It's fortunate that the warmly accessible Way Out Weather, which showcases his melodious, improvising guitar, exists in less esoteric numbers [than his limited released vinyl albums]. [Nov 2014, p.112]

The obscurity of some of what's here might seem almost comical, but the love that has gone into the whole package couches most of the tracks in a sense of lost treasure. [Mar 2018, p.116]