Overall, a promising, if risk-free start. [Apr 2019, p.116]

Truely, a voyage of discovery. [Jan 2009, p.121]

This is top-notch stuff that draws comparisons with Neil Young and Father John Misty. [Jul 2017, p.114]

Somehow nothing appears to be missing from the tantalisingly brief beats and blues of 'There Is No Light,' while 'Chain Of Steel's' tick-tocking marimba adds spooky variation. [May 2009, p.119]

Only a pair of horribly grafted on cameos from Iggy Pop and Elf Kid threatens to undo the good work. Otherwise, the charm offensive continues apace. [Aug 2017, p.108]

You & I is the most single-minded record you'll hear all year. [Aug 2016, p.107]

Orkenvandring and Sauerkraut evoke the motorik thrum and ringing guitar melodies of Neu!, splashed with Balearic colour and cloosely attuned to the squishy ambience of the hour just before dawn. [May 2010, p.125]

Immersive and enigmatic, it's the work of a singular talent. [Sep 2017, p.116]

Beast Epic arks a surprising loop back to the more insular feel of his earlier material. [Sep 2017, p.110]

QOTSA's seventh album wisely tweaks the recipe just enough to keep things spicy. [Sep 2017, p.114]

Carved Into Stone revisits their sludge-prog-industrial metal roots with impressively honed and effective results. [Jun 2012, p.100]

An exuberant debut. [Aug 2004, p.110]

The Savage Heart is the Revue's third album and is comprehensively their best to date. [Nov 2012, p.98]

Radiates good feeling and warmth. [Nov 2005, p.131]

Homebrewed splendour. [Mar 2006, p.110]

Their third album pulsates in glorious obliviousness to all interim "developments" in rock. [Feb 2016, p.115]

Depth Of Field styles the same retro sound with greater finesse and raises her songcraft game so that tunes, grooves and arrangements work all of a piece. [Apr 2018, p.106]

Superabundance us a celebratory affair--a hugely likable and intelligent pop album that sings with human warmth and, ultimately, quiet defiance. [Apr 2008, p.106]

With high-up bassline grooves and synth-psych mayhem oozing from every pore, it's another absolute winner. [Jun 2017, p.105]

If you ever wondered how Bjork would sound if she was caught in a snowdrift, here's your answer. [May 2009, p.112]

The results are just wonderful. [Sep 2003, p.112]

Anyone familiar with Portishead's magisterial Third and Barrow's production on The Horrors' Primary Colours knows the terrain-metronomic rhythms stretched like elastic; percussion as precise as surgery; disembodied keyboards and vocals. [Dec 2009, p.11]

One Part Lullaby's chugging, folk/soul interface and tagged-on beats has a more natural flow than before ... He's still proffering those cryptic, jittery asides ("one part lullaby, two parts fear" in the title track), but at least Lou Barlow's music sounds relaxed these days.

These dreamy but ambivalent folk and pop pieces have an incantatory quality. [Sep 2017, p.116]

Like the '70s, then, but much more fun. [Nov 2002, p.98]

Even more mesmeric and deep into Nick Drake territory: intense and slightly damaged. [Jun 2004, p.94]

There's so much going on here that joining the musical dots is a lengthy journey, but on this evidence Georgia can be special. [Sep 2015, p.110]

Greendale is a bonkers, utterly headstrong conceit. Let's hope that Neil Young never stops having them. [Sep 2003, p.111]