Draws you in and then pulls you under. [Apr 2020, p.108]

Their debut album marks a major hike in ambition. [Sep 2011, p.116]

Still raging, not drowning, their flame burns unfashionably on. [Oct 2010, p.110]

There is little that feels dull or predictable. [May 2017, p.107]

An atmosphere of heightened weirdness prevails. [Jun 2020, p.95]

[A] brilliantly unsettling album. [Apr 2016, p.110]

If seeker of the hip-hop's next wave need not apply, those with an appetite for rugged, screwfaced late-90's New York rap should find this keeps them scowling like it's 1999. [Mar 2913, p.111]

This fourth album is all the better for its subdued tone, mining its own strain of sozzled melancholia via underwater guitars, waltzing rhythms and lyrics steeped in wistful regret. [Nov 2008, p.123]

With elements of Afrobeat, house and indie rock, E Volo Love is an assured affair, [Feb 2012, p.107]

You'll have to search long and hard for a more original and distinctive album this year. [April 2012, p.100]

So we get stomping piano pop hits (I'm All Over It), supper-club R&B (a cover of Rihanna's Don't Stop The Music) and finger-clicken' ruminations on the stage of the planet (Wheels, If I Ruled the World). Proof the thrill is in the chase. [Dec 2009, p.111]

A superb piece of work. [Apr 2002, p.117]

What on paper sounds like an awkward hotch-potch, actually makes for an hugely enticing, fluid record.

Chatham County Line's format has barely changed, but it has matured deeply. [Jul 2014, p.104]

Screen Memories feels like the cryptic overspill, gnomic fragments of ideas and visions embedded in gloriously baroque synth-pop. [Dec 2017, p.109]

Her voice is magnetic enough to tilt the Earth's axis, the grooves so deep and plush that they could upholster a Cadillac. [Apr 2020, p.109]

A typically quirky commentary on contemporary culture's transient nature that's also attuned to the shifting moods of modern club sounds. [Feb 2019, p.116]

Overall Open Here is joyful and reliably brilliant. [Mar 2018, p.108]

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]

Resolution is a furious and unrelenting broadside of searing riffs and invention. [Feb 2012, p.107]

Often ludicrous, Pure Luxury is a brilliant escape. [Aug 2020, p.108]

The War On Drugs might never quite find what they're looking for but with a record as gloriously realised as A Deeper Understanding, it feels like they're getting closer every day. [Sep 2017, p.104]

Blur have had many more than 18 hits; certainly there are sufficient omissions to form the bulk of a second disc.

It's a mode that can feel pedestrian in the wrong hands, but Muncie Girls capture the sound's uncomplicated euphoria in style. [Oct 2018, p.115]

An arty, confident and exhilarating debut. It's everything pop music should be. [Mar 2005, p.94]

A brace of new collaborations with Canadian duo Tegan And Sara, whose pop sparkle illuminates Bad Ones' nocturnal tech-house, reveal yet another facet to Dear's ever-changing modes. [Nov 2018, p.105]

Old dogs, old tricks, but when the tricks are this good why would you want new ones? [Dec 2015, p.106]

A smart melting pot of influences and references. [Jan 2018, p.113]