Five tracks from the album were released as the Wake Me Up EP late in 2013, but on an album packed with possible alternative hits, the future is already his. [May 2014, p.107]

{The Birthday party is ] more like an unfortunate scratch on what is otherwise a miniature jewel of an album and one of those rare side-projects that deserves a long life of its own. [May 2011, p.117]

Priapic pub rock of the very highest voltage. [Apr 2010, p.106]

More tightly structured than their last outing TNT, this has enough dizzy polyrhythms and craziness for the free jazzers but is chock full of tunes, good humour and a certain grooviness

Toronto six-piece deliver a killer concept album. [July 2011, p. 113]

His most consistent work since 1991's Diamonds And Pearls, although you'll need to ignore the peculiar narrative episodes in order to fully enjoy it. [Jan 2002, p.106]

The 30-year-old's debut album proper is a thing of hushed beauty. [Jul 2015, p.106]

There's a focus here that would have your average Grateful Dead fan running screaming for the hills. And that in itself is a triumph. [Oct 2010, p.112]

The melodic charms are epic, the lyrical insights about romantic disappointment universal. [Feb 2015, p.114]

This is impressive stuff. [May 2017, p.108]

The switches from retro punk to camp stadium rock are seemless, and Creeper prove themselves worthy heirs to the bombastic rock bands of the past. [May 2017, p.103]

Barbara Barbara is an ideal way for them to restate their currency. Having lain dormant, the creature is alive once more, electrifyingly so.[Apr 2016, p.103]

Their [stardom] has been a slow rise. The ascent continues apace. [Mar 2014, p.108]

Brighten The Corners found the Califirnian indie five-piece buoyed by a more consistent set of songs than 1995's sprawling "Wowee Zowee." [Feb 2009, p.124]

When it clicks, as on the exhilarating rush of single 'Family Galaxy' or 'Fortress's' twisted rock operatics, the results glow with all the Technicolor detail of the Roger Dean-gone-digital cover art. [May 2009, p.112]

It's purging stuff, for sure, but clearly empowering and, as a listener, you're with him every step by highly emotional step. [May 2015, p.101]

Dumb Flesh strikes a fabulously oxymoronic tone: euphoric dread. [Jun 2015, p.100]

It may have been recorded in a church, but this is a record celebrating the celestial and the sinister in equal measure. [May 2011, p.126]

That song [Found What I've Benn Looking For], turbo-charged, grandstanding and whipped into shape by Grennan's gravel voice encapsulates his committed, lavishly layered approach. [Aug 2018, p.111]

With Fender's vocals soaring over skyscraper guitars and choruses that accelerate into a surging, full-throttle blast, it's hard not to imagine the stadium potential of these songs. There's a power in their marriage of beauty and disgruntlement, towering moments that recall '80s U2 or Simple Minds. [Oct 2019, p.115]

Brown's vivid storytelling skills bear testament to a major talent. [Jun 2012, p.108]

Each St. Vincent album has outclassed the one before, and her fifth is no exception. [Nov 2017, p.106]

This is actually a deeply groovy album, beautifully produced and full of sparkling detail. [Sep 2013, p.108]

By the time disc one wraps with the anthemic Halo On Fire, Metallica have already produced the excellent album expected of them. [Jan 2017, p.109]

A band with swagger once again. [Jan 2013, p.109]

A rip-roaring busman's holiday. [May 2017, p.108]

Her dark theatrics dominate 68 Screen, evoking '70s punks X-Ray Spex with a call-and-response about women's commodified bodies. [Jun 2019, p.115]

It's bracing stuff. [Mar 2014, p.110]