Without enough killer hooks Leo seems unlikely to claw his way much beyond cult attraction. [Mar 2005, p.100]

He's shot truer and more heartfelt arrows than these. [Jul 2004, p.122]

Each of Stray's tracks bring with it a sense of foreboding, from the eerie short-story-style lyrics to the reveryb-y guitars, which land between Echo & The Bunnymen and Ennio Morricone. [Apr 2020, p.105]

The result is something of a left-field classic. [Nov 2008, p.114]

In the end, the try-everything approach works out: if only because Girls' scatterbrained classic rock patchwork is so idiosyncratically odd. [Oct 2011, p.124]

They've never sounded heavier, now delivering songs without compromising their complex songcraft. [Apr 2914, p.103]

The hit rate's impressive. [Oct 2016, p.109]

Highlights here include the disorientated '60s pop of I Can Recall It All and the snappy, Troggs-like title track. [Oct 2019, p.106]

[A] brilliantly unsettling album. [Apr 2016, p.110]

The overall effect is not dissimilar to Sugababes, only with added adult content. [Aug 2006, p.111]

In the comparatively safe musical surrounds of 2005, he stands out as a compelling and utterly unique artist. [Oct 2005, p.119]

It's one which adds up to more than the sum of its parts. [Apr 2017, p.114]

Reflections proves Diamond is so much more than a two-dimensional pop project. [Jan 2020, p.111]

Redoubled his grime values: scene loyalty via scathing wit and wildly entertaining chutzpah. [Aug 2020, p.104]

Like Solomon Burke and Johnny Cash before her, she's turned to the likes of Will Oldham, Dolly Parton and Merle Haggard for source material, and turns in an album of love, pain, suffering and redemption to rival any of them. [May 2006, p.130]

[The band] hasn't compromised the pitiless bleakness of Scott Hutchison's lyrical vision from their previous output. [Mar 2013, p.99]

The fifth album from New Jersey's The Dillinger Escape Plan is another step back towards the math-metal that made their name. [Jul 2013, p.103]

At 22 tracks - including a spoken interlude by Eminem - there's a lot to digest here. But, Crucially, a lot worth digesting. [Mar 2020, p.120]

For the first time in their 19-year career, Pearl Jam actually sound--whisper it--fun. [Oct 2009, p.119]

It was a smart move [to enlist Tim,] Goldsworthy's attention to detail forcing the band up a gear. [July 2008, p.101]

[The album blurs] genres with the same ease it blurs expectations. [Oct 2013, p.109]

The effect is brilliantly female and forceful. [Nov 2015, p.115]

While unpredictable in parts, there are great melodies here to pull the floating voters in. [Oct 2016, p.106]

It's a record that turned out exactly as Hutchison intended. [Aug 2019, p.111]

The fierce intensity of Ote's digital blurts, Mudafossil's amorphous throb and To Many's fractal melodies show Kooshanejad mapping fascinating new dimensions of his own. [May 2016, p.111]

The highlights are outweighed by tracks such as Glitter Gold Year, a half-formed sketch of jabbing bass and meandering riffs. [Jan. 2012 p. 120]

This is witty English guitar rock of the highest calibre. [Nov 2002, p.114]

This genuinely feels like a fresh start rather than time-killing. [Mar 2003, p.100]