Personal but detached, fizzling but restrained, it's indie-pop with a brain and a soul. [Sep 2017, p.110]

As a band no one lays down a heavier groove right now. [Jan 2016, p.114]

It's a nocturnal-sounding affair--with the spectrally moody title track, the bleepy poetry of Writer and the Kid A vibes of JFK. Taken together, FLOTUS is a beautiful thing. [Jan 2017, p.108]

It's essentially easy listening for uneasy people. [Mar 2005, p.101]

It's one still stamped with his own sound, a sonic approach that, even at its most drowsy, threatens to blow the walls down. [Oct 2014, p.104]

Celebration Rock delivers more of the same good-time guitar-pop anthems about girls and night on the tiles, delivered at breakneck velocity and near-deafening volume. [Jul 2012, p.104]

Beauty made for basking in. [Dec 2019, p.114]

This is his best in aeons. [Nov 2008, p.121]

The result is a wildly primal and consistently brilliant rock'n'roll record. [Aug 2017, p.112]

It's not always easy, but it is frequently brilliant. [Dec 2018, p.108]

Live At The Cellar Door is the sound of a man enjoying his self-imposed set of limitations. [Feb 2014, p.121]

On most of Patch The Sky, Mould expresses his darkest emotions in way that make you want to shout along. [Jun 2016, p.114]

Circles showed his music was reaching new heights. [Mar 2020, p.116]

Sound[s] authentically retro without ever veering into Lenny Kravitz territory. [Sep 2003, p.101]

Another like this and people will struggle to remember she was ever in another band. [Dec 2002, p.98]

Clark had already mastered storytelling; now she's mastered heartbreak. [May 2020, p.103]

Keeping up with his often logic-defying wordplay can be a challenge. But the payoff is a startling insight into how the world looks from the inside one of hip-hop's most original and consistently inventive minds. [Nov 2019, p.110]

This is a record that demands what's left of your time. [Aug 2015, p.107]

My Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky isn't all cranium-crushing bleakness, just mostly. [Nov 2010, p.116]

Campbell has picked over the bones of the past and rearranged them into something utterly brilliant. [Apr 2015, p.107]

It's a well-deserved victory lap for the trio and ample proof that growing up doesn't have to mean losing your edge--or your anger. [Mar 2017, p.115]

Boundless and ecstatic, this is house music at its very best. [Dec. 2001 p. 126]

He's a terrific piano player, a gift put to exquisite use on this collection of old jazz standards. [Jun 2009, p.132]

This is high-pedigree pop-soul in the style of Costello's 1982 song Tears Before Bedtime. ... Gostello's lyrics are subtle, penetrating and often written from a woman's perspective. [Nov 2018, p.107]

The Navigator feels like a mighty, empowering antidote to 2017's many spiritual agonies. [May 2017, p.105]

A sprawling, ambitious 18-track behemoth, its size and constant stylistic shifts belies its cohesiveness. [Nov 2018, p.106]

Though rhythmically powerful, it's Hutchings's fluttering, forceful sax that is the totem around which this album prances with energy and adventure. And it's a blast. [May 2019, p.108]

A musical vigil primed to cut a path from bedside to festival stage. [Dec 2009, p. 111]