In short, Beck Hansen has properly re-acquired his mojo. [Mar 2014, p.106]

The experimental approach drifts into plain old messing about more than once, but when he gets it right, it's superb. [Aug 2013, p.99]

While Booker plays with a certain fury on this self-titled debut, he sings with a leisurely cool. [Sep 2014, p.105]

It's a punishing listen. ... But this is not a record for the faint-hearted. [Nov 2019, p.111]

It's a restrained record that doesn't suffocate its epic songs with epic instrumentation. [Jul 2019, p.114]

McKenna's charisma and melodic sense ensure it's a delight nonetheless. [Sep 2020, p.113]

It's like a broken radio stuck between frequencies, at once disorienting, woozy and supremely psychedelic. [Nov 2010, p.112]

It's a brilliant record, without question their best to date. [Sep 2014, p.107]

He'll never be an easy listen, but for now Actress has found a happier role. [Jul 2017, p.104]

Wordy troubadour's sixth and finest effort. [Sept. 2010, p. 118]

It might just be Everything Everything's most human record to date. [Sep 2017, p.107]

Shah isn't doing anything especially new here, but she is blending 2017's concerns, with unalloyed fury and genuine musical craft. [Oct 2017, p.108]

Beautiful stuff. [Jun 2020, p.94]

The folky reworking off The Raconteurs' Caroline Drama is an improvement on the original and the stark version of Love Is The Truth, originally written for a coke ad, outweighs the bombast of the released version. [Nov 2016, p.117]

Now in his 78th year, all that know-how has been meaningfully brought to bear on this collection of vintage, Depression-era blues. [May 20009, p.112]

Smart audio trickery and intriguing atmospheres draw the listener in and, overall, it's a real beauty. [Sep 2020, p.111]

It's a place where sweet harmony vocals and extreme rock meet, like Crosby, Stills & Nash through an art-punk shredder. [Dec 2005, p.148]

There is plenty here to treasure here. [Apr 2011, p.111]

There's a lack of clutter to songs such as To The Open Spaces and the title cut, with its barely-there brass arrangements, which makes them simple pleasures, and among the best songs of her career. [Jun 2003, p.102]

A pleasure, featuring some of his most winging music since [Roisin] Murphy's Ruby Blue. [Jul 2006, p.118]

It's an impressive feat of engineering, but one that anyone other than ardent fans will struggle to find a way into. [Oct 2019, p.114]

It works exceedingly well. [May 2017, p.108]

The Brooklyn trio rein in the misery. [July 2011, p. 106]

It's fantastic stuff. [Sep 2006, p.107]

For all its moodiness, Careful is a glorious coming-out. [Mar 2019, p.112]

Platform is always engaged and engaging, the questions it raises never merely academic. [Jun 2015, p.107]

Your Future Our Clutter is the Fall's finest in years. [Jun 2010, p.133]

Though you might struggle to dance to it, Punish, Honey is an unexpectedly saucy missive from the serious electronic underground. [Nov 2014, p.119]