The Convincer slots in smoothly behind 1998's Dig My Mood. [Oct 2001, p.126]

This is a very impressive, ambitious debut. [Oct 2014, p.113]

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]

Poison Season sounds like a restless musical intellect stretching out with new confidence. [Oct 2015, p.106]

Given time and a little effort, [his songs] begin to cast their own rewarding chamber-pop spell. [Mar 2005, p.98]

Less dazzling than Silent Shout, but The knife still create a world like no one else's. [May 2013, p.105]

The follow-up reins in some of the chaos and the songs are stronger for it. [Nov 2015, p.115]

Knock Knock is a visionary blend of minimal techno and armchair psychedelia, jammed with canny features. [Jun 2018, p.117]

Disarmingly intimate songs. [Aug 2017, p.102]

Panhandle Rambler sounds more inspired than anything the 68-year-old's produced in 20 years. [Dec 2015, p.106]

It's a pleasure to get lost in. [May 2012, p.99]

A record of a very fine sort. [May 2019, p.110]

A rousing and defiantly modern revolution in sound. [Mar 2020, p.119]

Perfectly balanced, 2011's So Beautiful Or So What was a triumph, which Stranger To Stranger continues. [#361, p.115]

There is only one real slip - Stephen Fry's mood shattering appearance on the title track. [Dec. 2001 p. 123]

Exhibits a grace and richness that is sometimes absent from Case's self-regarding live shows. [Apr 2006, p.112]

A wealth of quality material. [Jun 2012, p.99]

The finest alt-country album this side of Gram Parsons. [Jan 2005, p.129]

These songs sound as if they could have echoed around soot-stained ports and roadside taverns for generations and can still cast 21st-century listeners under their spell. [Mar 2018, p.117]

On the rich and dazzling Malibu, Anderson.Paak has truly found his voice. [Apr 2016, p.116]

A Victim Of Stars is the ideal primer to an almost three-decade solo career, with the bait of one impeccable new track. [Mar 2012, p.117]

Third will probably be more admired than listened to and, you suspect, this suits Barrow, just fine. [May 2008, p.131]

The songs are perfectly pitched, and even the less obviously suited numbers are approached with interpretive genius. [Sep 2002, p.101]

Practically every track on Late Registration is a glorious pop song. [Aug 2005, p.120]

It's possessed and peaceful at once, absorbing and wholly gorgeous. [Jun 2013, p.108]

Their fourth LP is their best yet. [Nov 2017, p.112]

Stay Positive isn't so much of an instant gratification, but a record that reveals more with each listen. [Aug 2008, p.131]

Much of Greatest Hits will be familiar to people who've never heard a Foo Fighters album before: indeed, these are precisely the people it's aimed at. Like all such, Greatest Hits fulfills a function for fans too. [Dec 2009, p.134]