The album's late lurch into electro and stadium rock is plain bizarre. [Aug. 2011, p. 119]

Downright terrifying fusion of bass music, pagan folktronica and snarling guitars. [Sep 2013, p.104]

Tasteful and soothing for Webb's ego, it's not much good for anything else. [Jan 2014, p.127]

It all adds up to an album alive with lyrical purpose, bookended by outright classics, and plenty of interesting moves and grooves in between. [Apr 2015, p.92]

There's a lot going on here. [Apr 2015, p.111]

A record of elegantly woozy street-level songwriting that highlights the links between Dire Straits and Television. [Jul 2015, p.104]

Catching the eye more than the ear, the rickety Maybe I Am Amused features Nirvana's Krist Novoselic. Meatier stuff surfaces on the quintessentially sludgy War Pussy, while I Want To Tell You thrillingly imagines Osborne's heroes, Kiss, covering The Beatles in hypermelodic proto-psych mode. [Jul 2016, p.111]

White Glue departs little from the scratchy template of La Spark but sounds more confident, if still just as nasty. [Nov 2016, p.114]

Voice-over clips from the movie aside, you'd assume this was a middleweight urban angst flick rather than about a fistic comeback-too-far. No matter, a job well done. [May 2017, p.112]

For a man who continues to spell his surname with two dollar signs, his act is lacking in real drama. [May 2014, p.121]

The absence of Liz Fraser's warbling--or indeed vocal distractions of any kind--means it comes and goes without leaving any lasting impression. [May 2003, p.106]

There's little new stylistically... but the results are remarkably strong. [Feb 2004, p.98]

Napolitano's lyrics exemplify the "perfect turn of word" for which she praises Bryan Ferry in a tribute song called Roxy. [Jan 2002, p.98]

Apart from the slow-burning, spine-tingling opener Electronic Performers, though, the duo seem reluctant to exploit their remarkable gift for melody, and tunes are too often mangled or left to fizzle out.

Utterly forgettable and hampered by Ruth-Ann's thin vocals. [Nov. 2000, p.113]

Khan's own incomparable pipes as blast-proof as ever, her first studio album since 2007 stands comparison with its stellar single. [Apr 2019, p.113]

A move to [Spain] has imbued Rouse's songs with sunshine. [May 2006, p.130]

Songs such as Ripe For Love and merry Nightmare are lengthier and more fully realised than anything he's attempted before but they remain enveloped in a fog of gauzy effects and disconcerting time changes. [May 2015, p.111]

A rich, multi-layered and utterly enchanting record. [Mar 2010, p.106]

The most successful tracks are those where Tricky is front and centre. [Mar 2016, p.117]

Underneath their smart stylistic kinks, however, lies a fundamentally old-fashioned imagination. [Aug 2016, p.107]

Green is a one-man game of musical consequences, mismatched but endlessly fascinating. [May 2006, p.124]

For all its surface activity, this twitching, fidgety aesthetic is still all icing and no cake. [Jun 2014, p.121]

When they do stretch themselves there's much to savour. [Jul 2014, p.109]

Confidence is attractive, but iii is a little too composed. [Apr 2016, p.111]

Sea Sew exudes the sort of simple, homespun charm that many strive to achieve but so few succeed in pulling off. [Jun 2009, p.123]

Without any shifts in emotional temperature, You Gots 2 Chill follows the thread that connects homespun to woolly. [Feb 2014, p.113]

Stewart keeps that see-sawing balance alive here. [Jan 2015, p.128]