If you're it the mood for a trawl through R&B's greatest hits delivered on R. Kelly's own terms, if not always in his own style, that's just how you'll like it. [Aug 2012, p.101]

The work of a solid pro rather than gripped by genius. [May 2016, p.111]

An exercise in restraint. [Aug 2018, p.114]

Steele may be in thrall to [Brian] Wilson and The Beatles, but his talent is precocious enough to give him his own very singluar voice. [Aug 2006, p.112]

Charming, dexterous and completely compelling. [Oct 2012, p.108]

Reserve space and time for it. [Feb 2005, p.104]

Captures her in full, unrepentant swing. [Jun 2005, p.111]

For all the celebrity firepower, however, Dark Night Of The Soul never quite adds up to more than a handful of great moments. [Aug 2009, p.111]

Last Night makes for a perfect farewell, with tracks from across the band's career. [Apr 2018, p.116]

It's all tastefully executed, but there is painfully little to get excited about here. [Sep 2013, p.104]

It's been a rocky road, but maybe he's finally home. [Dec 2014, p.109]

While skillfully executed--some songs, notably 'Murderer,' definitely have legs--the whole never rises far above a clever exercise in technique. [Apr 2009, p.105]

Intricate and thoughtful, it recalls the work of Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson. [Jul 2012, p.102]

The occasional glimmer of pop genius seen in the albums past is mostly absent, with plodding piano ballads in place instead. [Jul 2012, p.112]

There are unnerving, alone-in-the-forest atmospheres aplenty here. [Apr 2014, p.108]

Traces of Interpol, The Chameleons and post-rock heavies Trans Am are all over these songs, but if Fews don't wear their influences lightly, they know how to show them off to dark advantage. [Jul 2016, p.106]

Another year, another Jah Wobble album knocked out with a slew of collaborators and little interest in much, you suspect, beyond the immediate entertainment of its participants. [Sep 2016, p.114]

The album is drenched in the cosmic swirl of warm synths and dreamy atmospherics. [Dec 2017, p.106]

Both stunning and original. [Jun 2018, p.106]

Complete with harmonies from Julia Holter, it's an absolute peach. [Apr 2014, p.116]

Thirty-one minutes in there's almost a tune, but mostly this happily meanders like a horse grazing a path to nowhere in particular. [Oct 2009, p. 115]

Clinic have performed a remarkable metamorphosis for the melodic, dreamlike Bubblegum. [Nov. 2010, p. 106]

The occasional clunker's certainly not enough to take the shine off a solid, consistent album. [Jan 2013, p.110]

They carefully remodel Gentry's Southern storytelling. [Mar 2019, p.116]

The mood change from insurrection to brooding dystopia makes for a less immediate set of songs, but listen long enough and this is another powerful, affecting set. [Mar 2020, p.114]

Get Guilty bursts with dazzling tunes and--for him--relatively simple arrangements. [Apr 2009, p.108]

Despite the title's hint at unruly emotion, the surface of Aalegra's music stays as polished as her voice. [Sep 2019, p.108]

Deliberately sparse and bare. [Mar 2005, p.99]