Her latest album is a little more conventional but no less arresting. [Oct 2013, p.99]

Its wilful lack of song structure may make for a think-piece album rather than a jukebox favourite, but it's hard to deny its still-powerful magic. [May 2006, p.137]

[Olsen treats] heavy weather with an impressive lightness of touch. [Mar 2014, p.117]

Singularity is rich enough to let your mind wander through it. [Jun 2018, p.104]

It shows the music, too, is undergoing rapid evolution. [Jan 2012, p.123]

It's an excellent album born out of modern dread. He's in his element. [Aug 2019, p.106]

There's a richness here that's been absent from previous Jicks records. [Jul 2018, p.115]

[It] could easily have been a staggeringly pompous exercise; instead, it's rendered intriguing by a liberated approach. [Feb 2007, p.99]

With its prowling, piano-led menace and barely contained fury, Extraordinary Machine offers ample confirmation that Apple is far darker than your average singer-songwriter. [Jan 2006, p.126]

All Nerve is less the sound of a band trying to revisit the vitality of its youth, than a collection of musicians who don't appear to have ever lost it. [Apr 2018, p.110]

It's an album that weaves in and out of domestic life and musical ambition, and somewhere in the knot of them lies something rather special. [Mar 2017, p.108]

Fans of Four Tet and Jon Hopkins are advised to check out this master at work. [Summer 2018, p.110]

Posthumous albums tend to sound cobbled together, compromised, missing that vital spark, but this loving father-son dialogue has produced a worthy epilogue to one of music's greatest songbooks. [Jan 2020, p.115]

Where The May Queen plugs into a strain of joyous psychedelic folk that owes much to the 1660s as the 1960s, the stark desert blues of the title track showcases Plant's love of North African music, not to mention a voice that's been beautifully weathered by the elements. Who needs a Zeppelin reunion anyway? [Dec 2017, p.112]

Every song here is an exquisitely constructed, shimmering pop gem, and jam-packed with Folick's unique perspective and clarion voice. A special thing. [Jan 2019, p.109]

There's the humanist warmth and simple joy that you hear in The Beach Boys or The Flaming Lips at their best. [Nov 2002, p.114]

This is one of those exquisitely rare records on which maturity and vitality are equally matched. [Aug 2002, p.127]

Here he leads by example, creating wonderfully complex, changeable music that dares to be different. [Oct 2018, p.109]

Big, major-chord jams and subtly political messages abound. [Nov 2015, p.113]

Essential to anyone searching for modern folk's head waters. [Feb 2012, p.101]

With Kozelek's compelling ache of a voice to the fore, his star deserves to wax anew. [Mar 2004, p.113]

Playfullly irreverent and magpie-like as ever, and stuffed with inspired pop weirdness and great titles. [May 2009, p.119]

Visceral, cerebral, utterly lovable. [May 2016, p.112]

A work of baroque detail, crossing between Mercury Rev's psychedelic Americana and The Beta Band's bucolic electronica. [Aug 2004, p.110]

A couple of tracks featuring Kember's spoken word are skippable, but elsewhere such druggily joyous songs as Just A Little Piece Of Me and the triptastic I Can See Light Bend induce pleasant daydream states. [Summer 2020, p.105]

With Tarot Sport, Fuck Buttons have made a career-defining album that will resonate with anyone who has ever spent a night with their head in the speaker stacks and gone home marvelling at the ringing in their ears. [Nov 2009, p.106]

The result is music any Dylan admirer should get deeply immersed in. [Jan 2020, p.117]

[Curator Paul] Morley's selection is generally spot on, but those who already own 1998's more concise retrospective Endless Love won't need this. [Dec 2006, p.150]