New Order have made better records than this, but not many with such an emotional charge and the expansive noise to carry it off.... Get Ready is the sound of a great band breaking free of their past before your ears. Who’d have thought it?

Amid all the bitching and moaning are some of the finest songs of Weezer's career. [May 2002, p.118]

Often seems willfully inscrutable. [Sep 2004, p.120]

Stuff with hooks, freakishly frisky and using everything in the producer's cupboard... Up! contains 19 new tunes that play shamelessly to the gallery. [Feb 2003, p.109]

There's such a huge feelgood swagger it's impossible not to be swept along in its wake. [Jun 2004, p.96]

For all the wit, layered invention and easy-on-the-ear harmonies Deakin and Franglen bring to '64-'95, there's a corresponding lack of intrigue. [Feb 2005, p.94]

This unassuming record certainly deserves as much attention as [his] former big noise. [Sep 2005, p.116]

It's not going to challenge anyone, but it would bring a welcome touch of class to the charts. [Oct 2008, p.139]

If you like Sufjan Steven's lushly orchestrated reveries, you'll love this canadian eight-piece, who come across on their ambitious second album like an indie-folk Arcade Fire. [Mar 2009, p.105]

The addition of Southern-fried sludge makes this album almost the complete New Wave Of American Heavy Metal package. [Aug 2009, p.101]

Freakonomics proves they still pack a punch, though. [Aug 2009, p.101]

Focused and fighting fit, My way is proof that at 46 Ian brown is nevertheless prepared to go all 15 rounds. [Nov 2009, p.108]

They do what they do with admirable panache, ripping thorugh 13 buzzy little items in a shade over half an hour as though lives, or at least wallets, depended on it. [Mar 2010, p.105]

A roaring cosmic-rock romp, equal parts Muse-esque space station stomps and jitterbug Krautrock rhythmics. [Dec. 2011 p. 137]

Her debut LP is a Story Book Forest of weird instruments and enticing sounds. [Feb 2012, p. 108]

It bristles with roaring guitars and the whiskey-guzzling howl of Ben Ward. [Mar 2012, p.105]

More cultured chill-out from the East London alchemists. [Feb 2012, p.110]

Mountain Echo isn't original, but Marie's voice oozes control vulnerability. [Apr 2012, p.98]

[Lead singer, Corrina] Repp's spectral omnipresence enhances A Monument's addictive, dark-clouded atmosphere, especially when things get as chilly as later-day Radiohead and as pallid as Portishead. [Jun 2012, p.114]

On this third album the four-piece are now an accomplished if spiky group at home whether playing rough-edged guitars or glockenspiels. [Aug 2012, p.100]

His latest is a nicely varied set. [Oct 2012, p.97]

The array of styles that are spliced together--space rock, electronica, trip-hop, orchestral flourishes--fail to add up to a cohesive whole. [Sep 2012, p.97]

The sense of the singer reclaiming a little of himself with these meditative jams is unmistakable. [Jul 2012, p.109]

The songs here are a familiar mix of wry life observations and clever covers. [Nov 2012, p.96]

It's as if Swervedriver never left us. [Nov 2012, p.103]

An occasional over-eagerness for approval, though, can allow attention to wander. [Jan 2013, p.111]

It's an odd concoction that manages to shift between Boards Of Canada-gone-baroque and unsettling white noise. [Dec 2013, p.99]

Everything is dislocated, kinked and inhuman. [Jan 2013, p.105]