Sounds like a malfunctioning iPod loaded with The Neptunes, Aphex Twin circa Windowlicker and The Last Poets--only with all the fragments miraculously falling in just the right places. [Jun 2003, p.104]

Unrest follows a clean electronic trajectory, which manages to project both urban complexity and domestic quiet, while Oye's free-associative lyrics meander amiably here, there and nowhere. [Mar 2003, p.109]

A fantastically overwrought and indulgent yet also controlled exercise in emotive guitar rock. [Nov 2002, p.103]

He is a great storyteller and Still Fighting is littered with broken war veterans, bruised lovers and others thrown on to life's scrap heap. [Aug 2013, p.95]

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

These are great songs, regardless of categorisation. [Mar 2005, p.101]

They capture a group on the brink of a startling transition. [May 2013, p.116]

The radio sessions on this nine-disc set show that their most anthemic songs could just be as captivating in an intimate setting, but it's the live sets here that really illustrate their story. [Dec 2018, p.117]

A purely musical delight. [May 2007, p.126]

Errol makes the listener work for its pleasures, but they're worth it. [Apr 2020, p.112]

The 50-year-old's songwriting blue streak continues on Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, a triumphant album that merits all three exclaimation marks. [Apr 2008, p.105]

Life after Defo occasionally feels like flicking through someone's heartbreak diaries. [Apr 2013, p.99]

More subtle delights from the bearded Mr. Beam. [Feb. 2011, p. 117]

Near-perfect "Prairie Gothic". [May 2012, p.96]

There's neither a wasted note nor wasted word. [Sep 2017, p.110]

Largely the results are first-rate. [Jun 2010, p.132]

Intriguing, stylish stuff. [May 2004, p.111]

It's on the conceptual pair of tracks 45s (c.69) and 45s (c.14), where he contrasts two generations of hipsters hanging outside the same club 45 years apart, that his imagination really takes flight, though, giving an exciting glimpse of where “tradition” folk rock might go. [Jun 2014, p.108]

As an album, it's something of a revelation; the stunning sound of an artist being born again. [Oct 2015, p.113]

Where You Stand finds the quartet catching up with themselves and displaying real depth and maturity. [Sep 2013, p.108]

Two of Everything is a smorgasbord of delights and unexpected touches. [Oct 2011, p.130]

The follow-up sounds like an altogether more professional job. [Feb 2017, p.112]

It works as an excellent overview of his career. [Jan 2016, p.118]

An ideal Fall primer for the uninitiated. [Mar 2018, p.117]

Tracks such as The Way It Goes or Suck It Like A Whistle are dynamic, dramatic rap-funk, which find the ambition to measure up to her obvious talent. [Mar 2019, p.118]

The thematic predecessor to this LP underlined Yoko Ono's re-evaluation as a musical envelope pusher by a new generation of artists including Cat power, Spiritualized and The Flaming Lips, who all reworked moments from her back catalogue. This sequel successfully repeats the trick. [Mar 2016, p.112]

To make warm, immediate pop music that sounds so out of the ordinary is a rare feat. [May 2017, p.106]

It's the bolder likes of 'In the Middle of the Night' and 'I Wish I Were' where she really leaves her mark, somewhere between Patti Smith and ghost of Edith Piaf. [June 20008, p.148]