The bulk of the album is pure Kano--deft wordplay and a range of musical reference points. [Jul 2005, p.115]

His world of heartbreak, damage and survival attains an out-of-time quality that admirers of superior barroom soundtracks will warm to. [Sep 2014, p.113]

It's full of clever rhymes and couplets, overflowing with wit and evocative charm, all set to the kind of arrangements that Harry Nilsson always dreamed of. [Aug 2001, p.142]

It's when Bubba stays with his Southern roots... that he really shines. [Oct 2003, p.100]

Vol. 2 proves the equivalent of its parent release.

It makes a dignified final addition to the American Recordings series. [Aug 2006, p.109]

Patience, persistence and a good set of headphones will uncover fragile melodies here amid the maelstrom, though the guitar noodling can veer dangerously close to Mark Knopfler territory. [July 2008, p.101]

Nu-folk starlet shines ever brighter on third outing. [Sept. 2011, p. 100]

[The album] is filled with intricate detail. [Mar 2015, p.113]

The results is unusually heavy, even by FOTL standards. [May 2016, p.108]

This triumphant Brixton Academy show, though, proves that it didn't harm the ascent of their stirring mix of electornic rock and vintage voice samples. [Feb 2017, p.116]

This splurge of hits and misses is a pure energy infusion. [Aug 2019, p.119]

Top-tier comp. ... A near-perfect musical expression of escape. [Apr 2020, p.118]

No band should by rights sound as sharp, melodic and funny more than 50 years into their career, but Sparks are no ordinary band. [Jun 2020, p.113]

This surprising, haunting album will speak powerfully both to her peers and to anyone who remembers how youth can sometimes feel like an overwhelming weight. [Jun 2019, p.110]

Utopia is like walking through a vast tropical greenhouse, full of sunlight, oxygen and the twittering of birds. [Jan 2018, p.108]

His overgrown rustic dream, though, is oddly modern and littered with fly-tipped rubbish, with free-ranging neo-folk mini-dramas drawing parallels between imagined past and haunted present. [Aug 2017, p.103]

As richly rewarding a work of brilliance as it is, Crack The Skye will nonetheless be beyond the ken of all but those with the most open of minds--or pre--attuned ears. [Apr 2009, p.107]

The thumping drums and syncopated string throughout still channel the 1980s, while Good News (Ya-Ya Song) harks back to the summer of 1999, all clipped guitar and MTV beats. [Oct 2019, p.114]

As a statement on where the UK's urban scene is headed in 2017, it demands to be heard. [May 2017, p.109]

It's a record of dizzying scope and Janelle Monae is a terrifying talent at the top of her game. [Nov 2013, p.112]

At times, it's a touch muted, a little grey-out, but if this is Lennox staring down mortality, he comes out swinging. [Feb 2015, p.113]

This beautifully-packaged set certainly provides the perfect overview of that fine series of records. [Feb 2014, p.125]

It's difficult not to warm to any record that quotes Prefab Sprout's Cars And Girls in one breath and uses the word "phlebotomist" in the next. [Jul 2014, p.109]

It's the their best album yet. [Aug 2012, p.102]

...Like Clockwork is a return to form. [Jul 2013, p.107]

An album made for--and from--these times. [Aug 2019, p.112]

Welcoming in the wider world as Goldlink's laid-back delivery flows with deceptive ease over Joke Ting's sinuous, tropical R&B, the Afrobeats-like bounce of Zulu Screams and Yard's captivating Caribbean riddim. [Aug 2019, p.111]