These BBC radio sessions from the period don't offer many revelations. There's still a thrill to be had from listening to them rattle through this selection of--mostly--non-originals though. [Jan 2018, p.117]

In between there's much else to savour, from smooth slow jams to Won't Trade's terrific blast of rap meets '60s soul. [Jan 2009, p.123]

The results are beautifully muted yet murkily enticing, evoking Robert Wyatt's pastoral-prog reverie Rock Bottom. [Jul 2013, p.111]

The overlong 'Faith/Void' aside, this is another absorbing collection. [Apr 2009, p.100]

Her third album is as intimate as music can be. [Nov 2014, p.108]

He mostly rises to the occasion. What the vocals lack in beauty, they make up in expressiveness. [Mar 2015, p.112]

Electronic music is seldom this engaging or characterful. [Apr 2007, p.121]

The songs are low-key, personal tales with quiet hooks, grabbing what energy they can from the production's sudden lurches. [Oct 2016, p.109]

Ultimately you're listening to an increasingly original singer and songwriter. [Oct 2013, p.98]

The sheer oddity of the constituent parts is the thing that provides the thrill in the process, making this another perverse triumph. [May 2015, p.115]

All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us is a confrontationally loud, brilliant album, and every bit as bleak as its title. [Jul 2016, p.103]

The alchemy lies not only in the sonic contrast of the horn and keys but also the creative tension between Redman's roots in bebop's askew interrogations of melody and Mehldau's stream of notes rippling from the wellspring of European classical romanticism. [Oct 2016, p.110]

A true meeting of minds then, and one that's deeply affecting throughout. [Sep 2018, p.119]

An album that is very much more than the sum of its parts. [Aug 2019, p.108]

The result is an album that balances intellectual importance with the simple pleasures if great melodies played on meaty guitars. [Feb 2008, p.94]

Her directness about the experience of falling in and out of love with women is both refreshing and literal. [Apr 2019, p.113]

Set the controls for the heart of somewhere very uneasy, but rather beautiful. [Sep 2019, p.112]

The album's deft genre-hopping is navigated with a confidence that comes from clearly hard-won experience. [May 2020, p.110]

Fagen's fourth albums is as airtight as his others. [Dec 2012, p.104]

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]

They have made an amazing album about how amazing pop music can be. [Jul 2012, p.106]

With its beauty and sonic twists, Citizen Of Class is a thing of quiet wonder. [Dec 2016, p.110]

It would be easy for Exiled to come across as a lame pastiche. That it's quite the opposite is testament to the quality of the songs--most notably C.S.A.M.'s anti-imperialism tirade and Brave New Church's attack on facism's resurgence--and the ferocious delivery. [Aug 2019, p.108]

Despite the backward glances, a record very much in the moment. [Apr 2020, p. 106]

While a generic indie rock sound is flirted with, an amicable relationship deelops between that and their trademark hush. [Mar 2005, p.100]

The result is classic rock with a sneer. [Mar 2017, p.108]

Yet another display of his banter and brains. [Feb 2020, p.106]

It's 10 tracks are produced by veteran Chicagoan No ID, who provides a consistently soulful feel for the rapper's reflection on family, fatherhood and fidelity. [Sep 2017, p.110]