Vernon is an expert curator of his emotions, even if i,i needs to let a little more air in under the glass at times. [Oct 2019, p.110]

As feral and ferocious an album as they've made in years. [Oct 2001, p.130]

It's excellent. [Nov 2015, p.107]

A noble, affecting sign-off worthy of the name. [Feb 2017, p.118]

A deeply satisfying upgrade. [Feb 2019, p.115]

This is serious fun. [Mar 2007, p.106]

It helps that the guitarist composes vocal-free songs that, on his fourth album, are reassuringly acoustic, a brew of melancholy and romance. [Mar 2019, p.120]

It's the album's introspective second half which delivers the punch. [Mar 2018, p.109]

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

Leftism is tough to improve on. [Jun 2017, p.114]

It's an excellent record that both hits immediately and gets better with repeated listens. [Summer 2019, p.112]

Another triumph, brimming with soulful, languid grooves, deft samples and well-chosen guest singers.

It's almost worth it for the titles alone. [Dec 2009, p. 136]

The results are spellbinding. [#361, p.111]

Deftly deploying percolating electronica, natural instruments and overlapping vocal lines all the more emotionally gripping for the studied semi-affectlessness of Georgas's intimate delivery, Walsh transforms good songs into a great record. [Aug 2016, p.112]

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

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]

Exuberant party-banging love songs. [Sep 2015, p.116]

The oddball rapper with the humdrum name is carving out a space all of his own. [Nov 2016, p.102]

Playing almost everything himself, his command of sounds and styles feels masterful, seamlessly gliding between MOR-ish pop funk, stacks of gothic choral harmonies and the dreamy future-psych of Tame Impala. [Dec 2019, p.106]

Entertaining and informative. [Jan 2018, p.117]

More often than not, this is pop punk as it should be: direct, streamlined and raucous but of enough substance that preachy points are made within nagging, urgent choruses. [Oct 2012, p.93]

Tatum's sonic upgrade pays off handsomely. [Mar 2016, p.118]

Ward continues to set a standard few other artists can match. [Jun 2020, p.106]

So some bad habits die hard, but on every other level Viva la Vida... is an emphatic sucess--radical in it's own measured way but easy to embrace. [July 2008, p.95]

[The band] hasn't compromised the pitiless bleakness of Scott Hutchison's lyrical vision from their previous output. [Mar 2013, p.99]

Superior to both the last two Mode albums and [Martin] Gore's recent solo effort, Counterfeit 2. [Jul 2003, p.103]

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