It's honest, uncomfortable and bonkers, but therein lies its charms. [Apr 2016, p.115]

His remarkable Warp debut follows a series of effective "folktronica" albums on the US independent Mush. [Jul 2009, p.117]

The results are vintage sounding yet wholly fresh. [Feb 2003, p.98]

On Mine Is Yours they take flight at last: the distinctive Willett is excellent throughout and the songs almost all snap and bite. [Feb. 2011, p. 114]

It's 10 years since MHS were hailed as the next big thing, and with this album MacIntyre may finally repay those hopes. [Feb 2012, p.108]

It's their best album in nearly 20 years. [Aug 2016, p.112]

If a brace of previous albums hinted at genre-defying transcendence, Obrigado Saudade attains it. [Mar 2004, p.107]

No one could have expected the four Stooges reunion tunes to sound so young and furious. [Nov 2003, p.120]

Requiem is Goat's most acoustic and folksy release to date, but their greedily promiscuous approach to pilfering beats from all pints of the globe is undiminished. [Nov 2016, p.107]

Rarely has he sounded so consistently vulnerable. It suits him. [Nov 2017, p.107]

Reassuringly, Gilmour's cool and composed vocal delivery and liquid guitar solos dominate throughout. [Nov 2015, p.113]

The results are psychedelic, frequently surreal and occasionally brilliant. [Mar 2008, p.99]

It's a record of quiet confidence, its brightness dialled down but its impact still fierce. [Jun 2020, p.100]

Exorcism Of Envy not only has to be heard to be believed, it just has to be heard. [Feb 2013, p.111]

[Bryan Ferry] corkscrews the concept in an instrumental tribute nit only to the very first cocktail'n'cocaine era but also to his own serpentine melodic gifts. [Mar 2013, p.101]

It all adds up to an album alive with lyrical purpose, bookended by outright classics, and plenty of interesting moves and grooves in between. [Apr 2015, p.92]

Their debut turns out to be a lovely slice of Americana, tastefully underpinned by warm harmonies, acoustic guitars and a melancholy yearning for lost youth. [Oct 2009, p.118]

Atlanta Millionaires Club radiates a warm Muscle Shoals glow. ... Yet there's the unmistakable shape of '90s R&B and gloopy modern-day hip-hop moving beneath the more classicist surface. [Summer 2019, p.116]

Matches Slipknot for manic intensity while employing a freeform approach to songcraft which invites comparison to the lunatic-fringe rock of the late '60s. [Sep 2001, p.122]

Amidon has honed his music's suspenseful edge. [Jun 2013, p.90]

A block off the old Chip. [Aug 2016, p.117]

He's back where he really belongs with the T-Bone Burnett-produced Country Music. [Jun 2010, p.132]

A house album that strips out the weaknesses while putting boosters under the strengths. [Aug 2015, p.113]

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

It's charm lies in the warm melodies Sheppard and his supporting cast coax from their mostly acoustic instruments, including marimbas and vibraphones. [Aug 2015, p.112]

Wildly collaborative, pan-globalistically luvvy-duvvy and heaps of fun, it just about hangs together as her best outing since 2007's Kala. [Oct 2016, p.102]

Their sonic ingenuity enhances even the most basic garage-rock templates. [Sep 2001, p.122]

[Mann has] returned to writing songs which are wry, funny, adult and perceptive, all wrapped up in handsome melodies. [Oct 2002, p.112]