Business-as-usual for Jones, cranked up to 11. [Jul 2017, p.108]

Waterfall finds them back doing what they do best. [Jun 2015, p.108]

It's quite sublime. [Summer 2018, p.116]

A hip hop album of raw and unusual playfulness. [Jan 2010, p. 118]

For their sixth album, the quintet have finally made theor cranky Americana into fully fledged classic rock. [May 2010, p.118]

The vibe remians woebegone but with the combination of lush arrangements and gallows wit add layers of transcendence previously only hinted at. [Jun 2010, p.131]

With its soft lilts and cracked delivery, his rusty voice presses the same emotional buttons as Shane MacGowan and Arab Strap's Aidan Moffat. [May 2004, p.98]

Devendra Banhart's singular world remains as intoxicating as ever on the earthy, analogue-sounding Ma. [Oct 2019, p.106]

His witty baritone flow is more than a match for his masters. [Dec 2003, p.139]

The alchemy lies not only in the sonic contrast of the horn and keys but also the creative tension between Redman's roots in bebop's askew interrogations of melody and Mehldau's stream of notes rippling from the wellspring of European classical romanticism. [Oct 2016, p.110]

Cypress Hill have rarely sounded this focused. [Nov 2018, p.105]

Their parched, skeletal songs, built around simple guitar figures, Appalachian-style harmonies and super-catchy tunes merit a wider audience. [Jan 2020, p.109]

Though you might struggle to dance to it, Punish, Honey is an unexpectedly saucy missive from the serious electronic underground. [Nov 2014, p.119]

A lovely, soothing aural balm. [Jan 2020, p.113]

He delivers stompers and torch-carriers alike with irresistible power, all couched in sonic opulence. [Feb 2018, p.111]

Beautiful and candid, One Breath proves Anna Calvi has her frailties. They just happen to be as captivating as her strengths. [Nov 2013, p.106]

While not every idea feels as flesh out, Modus Vivendi teases a talented artist trying something genuinely new. [Apr 2020, p.105]

No One Is Lost is the closest they've come to fulfilling their potential. [Jan 2015, p.132]

The result might be a different kind of journey, complete with detours and dead-ends, but its as compelling as any he's taken so far. [Jun 2016, p.111]

City Music maps a landscape of uncertainty and wonder, Morby first steadying the wheel with his sure songwriting, then letting it spin. We've all been there, but not quite like this. [Aug 2017, p.111]

Such is the accessibility of the music here that its myriad stylistic zigzags don't jar, they simply thrill. [Jun 2015, p.104]

If Noah And The Whale's The First Days Of Spring dealt with identical subject matter from a 20-year-old's perspective, 46-year-old Everett's tale is darker and more adult. And painfully brilliant. [Feb 2010, p. 104]

These supremely accessible, expansively produced, mostly summery pop songs often suggest a less bilious, more fleet-footed Frank Turner. [Jul 2014, p.112]

Startling, gorgeous and illuminating, The Practice Of Love sees Hval continue to stretch the parameters of pop. [Nov 2019, p.111]

On this fifth album, they are now both a more complex and straightforward version of the thoughtfully serrated quartet of 2002. [Oct 2014, p.106]

The River In Reverse's soulful arrangements and warm textures are no surprise. [Jul 2006, p.113]

Alone again, naturally - and rather beautifully. [Apr 2020, p.106]

A masterclass in the art of collaboration. [Mar 2018, p.108]