The psychedelic haze of second LP Kaleidoscope Dream us toned down, replaced by a quixotic take on the R&B and rock landscape that, more than anything, stakes a claim for otherness. [Sep 2015, p.113]

A great man still making great music. [Sep 2013, p.99]

They already had the style, but with this bold step Elliott Brood now have the songs. [Nov 2012, p.95]

They nail it from the start. [Apr 2020, p.111]

In its elegiac tone, its gauzy production and its sense of impending finality, The Ghosts is Williams' Time Out Of Mind, the album on which Bob Dylan pondered his own mortality. [Mar 2016, p.117]

There are echoes of other singular vocal talents such as Jonsi and Anonhi, but Ghersi here occupies a sonic multiverse of his own creation. [Jun 2017, p.102]

The results are frequently riveting. ... A challenging listen, then, but that's its appeal. [Jun 2017, p.110]

An oddity for sure, but much too good to be restricted to specialist alt-rock record retailers. [July 2002, p.122]

What sounds difficult at first unfurls with force over repeated listens, veering from the chant-driven 'Molalatladi' to 'Lakeside's' space rock reverie. [Oct 2009, p.108]

South Coast Krautrockers' quirky, moody fourth. [Feb. 2011, p. 114]

The music itself remains more in debt to Blue Note classicism, but the palatability is alluring. [Summer 2018, p.113]

The effect is evocative if nothing less than a 21st-century Caledonian Spirit Of Eden. [May 2011, p.119]

Like a technology-phobic Beck, Desser tells his off-kilter tales with a wry eye. [Sep 2004, p.119]

Whenever the energy flags and the songs become a little so-so, she turns on the voice and dazzles again. [Sep 2015, p.113]

Occasionally slightly Gallic, but consistently intoxicating, it's a trip definitely worth taking. [Aug 2013, p.103]

Speakerboxxx takes up where Stankonia left off.... The Love Below isn't really hip hop at all. Its sound and lyrics owe a huge debt to, inevitably, George Clinton. [Sep 2003, p.97]

A revelation. [Apr 2004, p.107]

Core members Jonathan Donahue and Sean "Grasshopper" Mackowiak render sadness in twinkling matinee orchestrations, Central Park East or Coming Up For Air sounding pillowy, expansive, there to cushion a fall. [Oct 2015, p.111]

Matt Shultz has never sung more convincingly, but these are big, ideas-drenched songs, packed with beguiling twists and turns. [Jan 2016, p.108]

It's the best thing either has done in a decade. [Apr 2008, p.116]

Deerhunter might be fascinated by the vanishing tricks people play, but Halcyon Digest is a thing of unmistakable substance. [Nov. 2010, p. 113]

Invoking the spirit of minimalist commposer Steve Reich, Hebden crafts music of fragile beauty fron the simplest sonic palette. [June 2008, p.142]

Their sixth album has everything you should want from a rock group: riffs, daring ambition, big choruses and a bit with bagpipes in it. [Mar 2013, p.103]

'Love Runs Deeper' and the bustling 'Wanna Wait For You' especially confirm him as a master of his craft. [Oct 2008, p.153]

There are funk-pop uplifts too, but it's when he slows the pace down that Eastgate really comes into his own. [Summer 2020, p.101]

It's when he stops trying to be the people's poet, however that Falcon soars. [Mar 2010, p.100]

It all points towards an altogether shinier future. [Dec 2018, p.114]

She's delivered an intimate record tailor-made for long wintry nights. [Jan 2020, p.106]