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

Their pitch-perfect nods to Badfinger, Jimi Hendrix and Big Star come with a timeless quality. [Sep 2015, p.112]

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

The result is uniformly deft, sumptuous and moving. [Apr 2018, p.110]

As he switches from the blues shuffle of Repo Man to pedal steel laments, country rock, and even lovelorn soul, you can't help but marvel at the knack Ray LaMontagne has for really inhabiting his songs. [Oct 2020, p.111]

These are fine story-songs for any age, era or metal disposition. [Jun 2017, p.107]

The Terror is dark and experimental, full of synths and loops that owe more to Krautrock than guitar bands. [May 2013, p.101]

Crowell co-writes the majority of these 11 new songs, covering all the bases from nostalgic regert to downright weepie, highway anthem to cajun-flavoured rug-cutter. [Jun 2015, p.107]

This is living, breathing music that avoids the trap of comfy nostalgia. [Jun 2013, p.94]

The poppier bits like Jupiter Rising don't always work, but the darkly gritty Time In Babylon, in particular, shows just how far Harris has pushed the traditional country sound. [Oct 2003, p.104]

A beautifully unsettling album. [Oct 2017, p.111]

Their voices lock in dense, close harmonies on the likes of Listen, while We Know What It Means is as gorgeous as songs about 3am baby feeding can get. [Sep 2018, p.113]

A soul-baring album it may be, but The Weather Statio's forecast is still bright and breezy. [Dec 2017, p.113]

This is Elton's best album since, well, Captain Fantastic. [Oct 2006, p.118]

Occasional voyages into proggy oddness (Future Crimes)bring some esoteric intrigue to their indie insouciance, but, ultimately, this band wants you to have as much fun as they so clearly are. [Nov. 2011, p. 143]

Band Of Joy is a good place for him to stay a little longer. [Oct 2010, p.114]

It seemed as if they'd perfected the balance of 2002's glowing "Neon Golden," but here manage to continue the evolution. [July 2008, p.108]

The deeper emotions being stirred this time around fans out to several other highlights. [Mar 2013, p.106]

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

Before stardom, they stopped off to reinvent guitar rock. [Aug. 2011, p. 128]

Zach Condon's troupe emerge from indie safe house on triumphant third. [Sept. 2011, p. 109]

He creates rich, oddly visual soundscapes while he murmurs lucid dreams of his younger self. [Sep 2013, p.105]

It's intoxicating listening that demands repeated attention. [Oct 2012, p.102]

A new rock force was born. [Jan 2018, p.117]

On the rich and dazzling Malibu, Anderson.Paak has truly found his voice. [Apr 2016, p.116]

There's might in their minimalism. [Mar 2016, p.111]

Startling, shape-shifting music by a band reaching the peak of their powers. [Mar 2013, p.108]

AM continues a pattern, then: every couple of years, the Monkeys make a great album, sounding tighter and more telepathic with each release. [Oct 2013, p.97]