Petra's songs have an autumnal quality, wistful yet mellow, with his voice providing the earthy centre. [Dec 2019, p.106]

All of [the songs] exhibit the unique charms of the Chicago singer/songwriter. [Jun 2020, p.99]

Mutable Set is best at its most surreal. [Jul 2020, p.110]

It's a bewitching formula. [Jun 2005, p.120]

It's a very strange album indeed. Happily, it's also a very good one. [Nov 2005, p.131]

The shimmering versions of past highlights and the exhilarating title track offer a fascinating glimpse of where Coltrane was headed next. [Nov 2019, p.119]

It's when Moorer drops her guard on Like It Used To Be, Thunderstorm/Hurricane and the self-lacerating Mama Let the World In that Down To Believing bursts from black and white into full colour. [May 2015, p.109]

Soft soul, gibbering jazz fusion and the cyber-futurism of overseer Flying Lotus still works a collective shock. [Jun 2020, p.96]

This compilation once more confirms, Wyatt demands, deserves and ultimately abundantly repays, the fullest attention. [Dec 2014, p.120]

Completists will be delighted that songs as good as Cars Can't Escape and Kicking Television have been rescued from the dead zone of soundtracks and bonus discs but there's a lot of competent Americana and superfluous concert material to get through. [Jan 2015, p.139]

Morbid, maybe, but she handles it all with dignity. [Mar 2006, p.106]

If the delivery mechanism is different, the payload is pure Bruce. [Summer 2019, p.106]

Contradiction incarnate, Yeezus is Kanye's most Kanyeish LP yet. [Sep 2013, p.103]

The psychedelic haze of second LP Kaleidoscope Dream us toned down, replaced by a quixotic take on the R&B and rock landscape that, more than anything, stakes a claim for otherness. [Sep 2015, p.113]

Thrilling and vital sounding stuff. [May 2019, p.111]

The instrumentals stay restlessly creative too, this time absorbing hip-hop cadences, wistful fiddles and dreamy post-punk. [Sep 2020, p.108]

It's no surprise they've held up so well after all these years. But it's the extra features, spread over four different editions that truly impress. [Apr 2009, p.114]

The minimalism only focuses the listener on his searching, spiritual lyrics and lovely, time-aged voice. [Feb 2020, p.111]

There is no waste here. [Sep 2007, p.96]

Hope Downs shows how jangling indie should be done. [Summer 2018, p.114]

It's a thing of grief-blasted beauty, and Gibbons brings tender pain to these words of lost children and mothers, her voice rising and falling impressively to the the occasion. [May 2019, p.112]

Quiet Signs is an utterly captivating record from its first second to its last. [Mar 2019, p.116]

While she could let her hair down a little more, this record finds plenty of sweet spots between melancholy and euphoria. [Summer 2020, p.107]

Takk... [is] a thing of... supple, muscular beauty, throwing off the stultifying air of reverence that has sometimes surrounded them. [Oct 2005, p.116]

It's a pleasant listen but never quite sparks. [Jul 2013, p.100]

Rhythmically complex yet deftly controlled. [Jul 2018, p.116]

Occasionally the vocals soften the edges, but on a record that feels as if it's trying to catch the moment of changing states - geological and mental - it's dynamism always powers through. [Summer 2020, p.104]

Showcas[es] [Shields'] typically speaker-buckling white noise. [Nov 2003, p.126]