Orc is an incredibly full-on record. [Oct 2017, p.107]

When the Crowes stumble into the right place, they soar. Indeed, at its best, their sixth album delivers the same streamlined pleasures that the group rediscovered on 1999's By Your Side.

Los Angeleans' Paul Simon-channelling second LP. [Sept. 2011, p. 110]

Their third album takes them into Foo Fighters' radio-friendly anthems territory. [Oct 2012, p.98]

An album that sounds hushed, bucolic and carefully crafted. [Oct 2012, p.94]

The winter to Johnson's eternal summer. [Jul 2012, p.95]

A minor work from a mighty band. [Jan 2019, p.110]

A radio-friendly collection of feel-good summer pop alongside teen-angsty ballads. [Nov 2007, p.147]

[Passover] can be frustratingly sparse in places. [Apr 2018, p.106]

The whole thing comes with a sort of knowing childishness, like reverting back to your most obnoxious teenage self after 10 Minutes with your family. [Apr 2016, p.112]

Amen & Goodbye is an all-on-black attempt to rediscover their mojo. By and large, it's successful... The only minor caveat is that in the search for sonic and lyric transcendence, the band give off the slight air of Christina rock project. [May 2016, p.104]

A foursome without a single Ken among them, their self-titled debut is heavy psych-rock for those of a crepuscular calling, with Bearfight and Refined being the songs where they really up the power. [Oct 2008, p.153]

The overall effect is warmly intoxicating and that the album comes so close to matching up to the records it's in thrall to means you can forgive its obvious debt to others. [Mar 2014, p.110]

Beware displays enough of Oldham's lyrical and musical guile to ensure that if Beware does become wallpaer, it's lead-laced anaglypa. [Apr 2009, p.100]

Corny soul pitfalls are navigated via satisfying hooks which erupt every time the four-part harmonies kick in. [Sep 2002, p.101]

Sometimes they're studenty when they think they're being menacing, but there's promise and ideas aplenty here. [Sep 2002, p.109]

Under all the Iggy Pop mumbling, splintered ballads and warped Western themes, it seems they keep bubbling back up. [Oct 2017, p.105]

The 1991 session hasn't aged well--the bongos are a problem, but 10 years later they'd mastered the art of subtle delivery. [Jul 2014, p.123]

Anthems For Doomed Youth has plenty of reminders of why people fell in love with The Libertines in the first place.... For better or worse, the habit of both spinning and dwelling upon their own mythology remains too. [Oct 2015, p.112]

[He's tempered] his earlier frat-boy laddishness with some gentler introspection and a keen ear for beats. [Sep 2013, p.107]

The airy-fairy aggression sometimes misses the mark. [Oct 2012, p.112]

The duo's experience and aplomb win out. [Sep 2014, p.108]

An album with dirgeful ballads, though they do at least let her show off her excellent voice. [Dec 2017, p.109]

Admirers of The Boo Radleys, the group Carr side-stepped stardom with in the '90s in favour of eclectic cult-dom, will appreciate the sophisticated dance-pop, rock, soul and Brian Wilson-like orchestral curlicues in evidence. [Dec 2017, p.102]

Such a nuanced take on pop's paisley-coloured past won't be to everyone's taste, but devotees will be left dizzy. [Jul 2012, p.95]

The sheer speed can be exhilarating, but changes of pace... are disappointingly few and far between. [Nov 2006, p.149]

Ambitious yet oddly affecting, wash day need never sound the same again. [Apr 2016, p.111]

The shadow of Mazzy Star's drowsy psychedelia still hangs heavily over everything they do. But they do it so persuasively, so single-mindedly, that it's never an issue putting that to one side. [Mar 2013, p.110]