Forty albums into his career, Morrison might just be summoning a new creative burst. [Feb 2019, p.115]

Fearless strides forth from Neil's number one son. [Aug. 2011, p. 119]

Tobacco keeps things instrumental, lathering on freakish analogue effects but rejecting dance music's stylistic tics in favour of a pleasingly warped relative of space rock. [Aug 2009, p.112]

For Polica, chilling out means going way below zero, resulting in an icy glitter that is seductive but ultimately freezes you out. [Dec 2013, p.112]

Bell has an instinctive feel for sound but, as Freak's teeth-grinding acid house nostalgia underlines, he won't find a new audience with this. [Oct 2003, p.108]

Finisterre distills their Mellotrons, strummed guitars and electronic beats to a fine essence. [Oct 2002, p.114]

As synth-rock rebirths go, it's highly convincing. [Jun 2003, p.95]

If you were charmed by early Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, or simply fancy a bonkers tune-fest, this inspired, lo-fi rock is for you. [Apr 2004, p.114]

Finds GBV playing to their long-standing strengths. [Oct 2004, p.124]

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

An inspired, invigorating concoction. [Feb 2002, p.108]

'Treshold Apprehension' features his best screaming since the Pixies' heyday, while 'Test Pilot Blues' and 'Your Mouth Into Mine' capture his imagination at its padded-cell best. [Oct 2007, p.94]

Since reforming in 1990, founder Jean-Herve Peron and Werner Diermaier have been prolific, touring the world and recording a series of albums that have never quite scaled the heights of those early works. Cest Com... is no exception, though it's best moments provide a showcase for Diermaier's extraordinary percussion. [May 2009, p.112]

For the listener wanting a more reflective experience, 50 sometimes enthralling minutes await. [May 2013, p.94]

The manic arrangements sometimes overwhelm, but there are worse places to drown than Baths' ball-pit of an imagination. [Jan 2018, p.106]

Clever, if a little monotonous; very much an LP for our times. [Nov 2019, p.112]

The envelope-pushing gets a bit much at times. [Feb 2020, p.116]

Both instantly appealing and dazzling inventive. [Apr 2020, p.113]

Subtle contributions from left-field electronic artists like The Books and Broadcast add variety, but at 21 tracks, it's still a marathon. [Apr 2005, p.126]

There's a little more in the mix here [than in her solo debut album], dabs of lap steel on Babylon and elsewhere, gentle harp flourishes on Song For Next Summer, but this is barely less lovely than its predecessor. [Nov. 2011, p. 127]

Robyn Hitcock, My Morning Jacket's Jim James and, taking the female characters' voices, Becky Stark and Shara Worden, are among those fleshing out the band, but all are no more than support to Colin Meloy and his very singular vision--and what a glorious big, bold and entirely bonkers one it is. [Apr 2009, p.104]

It might sound a bit much on paper, but Leschper's thought processes result in fantastic music--think Warpaint gone deconstructivism-crazy. [Oct 2018, p.115]

The Fall contains more than a few copper-bottomed classics: the languid and steamy I Wouldn't Need You, the Ryan Adams co-write Light As A Feather, and Chasing Pirates, a near-perfect two-and-half minute study of the racing thoughts that get in the way of sleep. [Dec 2009, p. 114]

While it's impossible to shrug off the feeling they've been here before, [Inside The Ships] remains involving. [Nov. 2011, p. 140]

Some of it is beautiful, but perhaps they should've enlisted the help of their offbeat brother Rufus to add a bit more colour to the canvas. [Jan 2016, p.115]

Style and contentment. [Jul 2020, p.104]

The results are mixed. [Jul 2020, p.104]

Entertaining and informative. [Jan 2018, p.117]