It's an experimental, fitful listen that rewards concentration. [May 2020, p.103]

Melodically subtler than Friedberger's past albums, Rebound still swings thanks to her innate, and often-overlooked, knack for songwriting. [Jun 2018, p.112]

His debut album is extraordinary. [Apr 2009, p.110]

By turns wistful, plaintive and overwrought, Solo Piano III is a fitting virtuosic finale to this Renaissance Man's excellent adventure. [Oct 2018, p.111]

Diminished by their willingness to splash about in the post-Tortoise shallows. [Dec 2003, p.124]

While it lacks the polish of a major pop album, it's not dulled by the overthought conservatism that might bring with it. [Mar 2018, p.115]

Like quicksand, it's subtle, surprising and utterly absorbing. [Oct 2007, p.98]

An album rich in swirling emotions, backed by inspired productions from electronica virtuosos Arca and London-based Jam City. [Dec 2017, p.106]

A blistering song set with the playful spirit of '80s Prince. [Jul 2005, p.115]

Everywhere you turn there is something beautiful. [Apr 2020, p.114]

With Electric, Pet Shop Boys have succeeded spectacularly. [Aug 2013, p.92]

The relentless live percussion give Frost's music the structure that makes it more than noise. [Jun 2014, p.111]

Those who think that somewhere, a liberal arts college is missing its creative writing teachers, might not be surprised this is a clever record. It's also, however, one that glows with tangible human warmth, heartbeat never failing to keep pace with its brainwaves. [Jun 2013, p.91]

An unpolished gem. [Feb 2006, p.104]

Cocker's treasurable wit and the band's seventh album have taken a corporation bus ride out for strange, poetic interludes among the trees and the undergrowth.

It's startlingly spirited stuff. [Aug 2003, p.116]

For all their generic tendencies, these are fertile minds. [Sep 2003, p.106]

Imagine if a Morrissey-style frontman--sharp, tender and taboo-breaking--was also sexual. [May 2003, p.107]

Both inspiring and inspired, Godfather completes Wiley's reclamation of self brilliantly. [Mar 2017, p.110]

This is unvarnished rock, primal and exhilarating, songs groaning with their abundance of great hooks, suggesting that El Camino may well prove to be the pair's definitive records. [Jan. 2012 p. 116]

Imagery and music intertwine elegantly on Small Plane and The Sing and if it's not up there with Callahan's very best work, Dream River still runs deep. [Nov 2013, p.102]

There's a wildness to it, a predatory snarl as it bares its teeth and chases down new ways of expressing desire, different ways of being. [Sep 2018, p.112]

It's the voice that carries it all: rawer and more rousing by the minute. [Jun 2020, p.108]

By turns impassioned, thoughtful and thrilling, it makes for a standout debut. [Jun 2014, p.117]

This third LP for the label is both gritty and polished, sung and played with the certainty of an artist who's been doing it forever and will keep on doing it until they're stopped. [Jul 2014, p.107]

Co-produced in the US by Grizzly Bear's Chris Taylor, Twin Shadow is assured hipster status in his adopted New York home. [Jan 2011, p.142]

He achieves an almost architectural sense of scale. [May 2018, p.115]

With the exception of Bob Dylan, there isn't a single artist, living or dead, who has managed a record this audacious 30-plus-years into a career. Wake Up The Nation is that good. [May 2010, p.114]