Irresistible. [Apr 2018, p.112]

Here If You Listen evokes CSN&Y Deja Vu than a Croz solo LP. [Dec 2018, p.107]

A Bath Full of Ecstasy feels like a glorious concentration of Hot Chip's skills. [Summer 2019, p.111]

This is a heady journey through excess, absurdity and 21st century mores from arguably the world's most eloquent singer-songwriter, which seems to take us that bit closer to who he really is. [Jul 2018, p.117]

Fallen street poet gets remixed by rising street urchin. Result: comeback complete. [March 2011]

A unique and thrilling voice forging a new folk tradition. [Jun 2014, p.122]

[A] heartfelt tribute to country music. [Dec 2006, p.133]

It's rarely an easy listen, but in among all the post-punk references lurks a soundtrack to 2018's looming global catastrophe that's urgent and compelling. [Feb 2018, p.113]

Soused remains a distinctly perverse pleasure. [Nov 2014, p.120]

By the end, Lopatin has captured the uneasy calm of a mind unhinged by information overload. [Jul 2018, p.115]

A Brief Inquiry... feel not just hugely entertaining and moving, but necessary. [Jan 2019, p.104]

Their parched, skeletal songs, built around simple guitar figures, Appalachian-style harmonies and super-catchy tunes merit a wider audience. [Jan 2020, p.109]

Each of its 11 songs luxuriating in an unhurried, pillow-soft airiness that draws you in, as opposed to giving up secrets too willingly. Free of expectation, Shura's found her own pace. [Oct 2019, p.108]

It's a graceful exhibition of light melody over dark mood. [Jun 2014, p.110]

As long as they continue to ask themselves difficult questions, and answer them with records as full of fire and vitality as Futurology, failure is not an option. [Jul 2014, p.113]

Despite the slight air of "tell me something I don't know" hanging over proceedings, both musically and lyrically, there is an earworming swagger here. [May 2018, p.112]

Understated yet charismatic, Harding has the gift of making reality seem like a very fragile and porous thing indeed. [Jul 2017, p.108]

There's a wobbly quality to La Havas's toplines that means they can get lost in the more densely instrumented tracks, yet the sparser finger-picked guitar numbers give her songwriting space to shine. [Aug 2020, p.108]

[Wrongtom's] meeting with East London jungle MC Deemas J is his most faithful homage yet. It's also his best. [Nov 2012, p.112]

Transience finally give its long-serving creator the option of stepping off the road and retiring on a high. [Summer 2019, p.116]

With strings, brass and a great deal of drama on his side, it's a beautiful escalation. [Summer 2020, p.103]

All That Reckoning hums with barely suppressed threat. [Sep 2018, p.110]

Star Wars feels like the work of a band remapping their space. [Oct 2015, p.115]

While these 12 songs carry a lick of humour, there is a sublime tenderness here too. [Aug 2017, p.107]

American Gangster sounds less like a last gasp than the possible start to a second act in Jay-Z's career. [Jan 2008, p.103]

With its soft lilts and cracked delivery, his rusty voice presses the same emotional buttons as Shane MacGowan and Arab Strap's Aidan Moffat. [May 2004, p.98]

The bed springs chez Wegg-Prosser are clearly creaking. [May 2014, p.121]

Eerie yet often enthralling electronica. [Aug 2019, p.108]