While the wheel remains un-reinvented, The Invisible Band finds its mark with unerring accuracy.

A fascinating insight into Joe's mind and the last days of The Clash. [Nov 2018, p.115]

Her third album is as intimate as music can be. [Nov 2014, p.108]

While the mix of influences could produce self-indulgent noodling, songwriter Kevin Parker's ear for a tune keeps the songs focused. [Nov 2012, p.106]

Electronic music is seldom this engaging or characterful. [Apr 2007, p.121]

Natural Selection is a triumph of style and content. [Jan 2015, p.120]

None of this would work, of course, if there wasn't pop-rock nous at the core of this band whose opening shot is relentlessly, exhilaratingly effective. [Dec 2008, p.123]

Leithauser's voice is its usual delicious scuffed-up howl, the music covers a broad indie-rock sprawl, but the focus here is the stories. [Jun 2020, p.102]

Willfully schlocky, surprising witty. [Sep 2010, p.113]

It's ridiculous and a lot of fun. [Apr 2013, p.100]

It's some indication of Feast of Wire's accomplished evocation of Arizona's old weirdness that it makes you want to go to Tucson. [Mar 2003, p.104]

It is a track or two too long. ... But that aside, Why Me? Why Not. is a triumph, one that proves As You Were was no fluke and that Lia Gallagher is well and truly back on track. [Oct 2019, p.104]

An LP that strikes a perfect balance between desparate sides of Jamie T's personality. [Oct 2016, p.108]

Carr retains enough left-field eccentricities, such as the Casiotone keyboard of I Don't Think I'll Make It, to make The Breaks a true indie-rock gem. [Nov 2014, p.108]

They manage to be thrilling and unsettling throughout. [Jan 2016, p.112]

Leonard Cohen sounds like a performer at the peak of his game. [Mar 2012, p.107]

The results is unusually heavy, even by FOTL standards. [May 2016, p.108]

Earle believes this is one of his best albums; he's not wrong. [Jun 2009, p.132]

Ditto's one-of-a-kind voice still bestrides everything, sometimes gutsy and soulful, sometimes oddly sweet. [Jul 2009, p.130]

Through its trippy ballads and spacey funk, Childqueen is quite a sonic journey. [Summer 2018, p.106]

Whatever she make you feel, it's a ferociously sensual work. [Summer 2018, p.117]

This is an album which manages the rare trick of being accessible and head-warpingly barmy both at the same time. [Nov 2002, p.96]

Rome has a fascination all of its own. [Jun 2011, p.121]

Set the controls for the heart of somewhere very uneasy, but rather beautiful. [Sep 2019, p.112]

[The] debut is a blast from start to finish. [Aug 2015, p.104]

The hit rate's impressive. [Oct 2016, p.109]

An album of great craft, emotion and warmth. [Apr 2005, p.125]

His seventh album sees Vile cement his place as an artist following his own lead. [Nov 2018, p.103]