If you can get over the voice--and it is not a lovely thing--Time Changes Everything at least has curiosity value. [Oct 2002, p.104]

When the Crowes stumble into the right place, they soar. Indeed, at its best, their sixth album delivers the same streamlined pleasures that the group rediscovered on 1999's By Your Side.

About as personality-free as rock music gets. [Apr 2004, p.115]

They run a schizophrenic gamut of cinematic moods that bleed into one another jammed together into one disorienting hour that reaches its end without any discernible narrative reward. [Dec 2012, p.104]

The Magic Numbers' central problem remains: too few hooks back up the pretty tunes, and The Runaway becomes an album you want to love, but struggle to recall even as it glides on by. [Jul 2010, p.135]

Eminem has never sounded more like a man out of time. [Mar 2018, p.107]

Mostly it's too laboured to uplift. [Apr 2003, p.109]

the expectancy of being universally tipped for greatness may yet sink her, but she's delivered here. [Mar 2011, p.109]

There's commendable variety among these 17 tracks, but little that rises above the mediocre. [Oct 2007, p.98]

The result glitters like diamond.

Wonky vocals and a lack of guile strangle the project, not least on Efflictim, where a terminal aimlessness befits the melodramatic-teen lyric[s]. [Jun 2012, p.115]

This Machine sounds more like an off-cuts collection than a comeback. [Jul 2012, p.98]

Joel and Benji Madden's fifth album of anthemic dumbness. [Dec. 2010, p. 110]

Brassbound is more convincing than their debut.... But it's hardly adventurous. [Jul 2005, p.113]

At least Nickelback know how to write a tune. [Jul 2003, p.104]

Musically, it sucks. [Feb 2005, p.98]

This fourth album finds them repeating the nifty trick of simplifying Tool's complex musical equations. Math metal for dummies, anyone? [Jan 2009, p.113]

Jovi's delivery of the usual cliches has a curious, sickly sheen. [May 2013, p.96]

Has only occasional flashes of inspiration. [Jan 2002, p.107]

A treat. [Jul 2003, p.108]

MOR for the Ibiza generation.

Only the stripped-down electro of 'Here Comes My DJ' shows anything like his old form. [Apr 2009, p.105]

You'd expect better from a band so on top of their game.

No band can survive on novelty alone, and Electric Six still thrive on parody rather than invention. [Dec 2006, p.134]

Despite it's title and Young's Ben Folds-esque vocals, All Things Bright and Beautiful keeps its beliefs at a distance for the most part. [July 2011, p. 117]

As worthless as it's possible for music to be. [Feb 2005, p.100]

It might propel them deeper into the mainstream, but the artistic price doesn't seem worth paying. [Jun 2017, p.105]

He's beginning to develop his own sound as well as his own voice. [Mar 2004, p.111]