It does thrillingly refine the group's electric explorations of numinous spaces both minuscule and gigantic. [Jul 2019, p.114]

With too much hip hop content to recycle cliches of its own making, it's exhilarating to discover someone out there is still willing to test the limits. [Jun 2009, p.132]

The music matches the rhetoric, and it's an undeniable triumph. [Jun 2016, p.109]

They're intriguingly ambivalent, but the conundrums are so beautifully and hauntingly put, you'll want to revisit them. [Jul 2009, p.125]

It's a pleasure to get lost in. [May 2012, p.99]

There are meandering moments on Skying--closer Oceans Burning's day-trip into prog palls after a while--but it continues The Horrors' fast-forward evolution from their dark larval form into lepidopterist's delight. [Aug 2011, p.110]

A masterclass in mixology. [Jan 2020, p.113]

Here they find wonderful refuge in stability. [Nov 2014, p.102]

Cenizas creates the precious illusion of space and motion. [Jul 2020, p. 109]

Whereas on record the songs tended towards the delicate, here they're fleshed out, with a richer sound that evokes The Zombies or Love. More vital, is how the set-up re-imagines earlier material. [Jun 2019, p.116]

The singer hits new highs and broadens her pop horizons. [Mar 2014, p.118]

The result is an impressive but super slick collection of post-hardcore floor-fillers that's increasingly more "post" than "hardcore." [Jul 2009, p.117]

With gospel tinges and road-dusted melodies, this is high-end Americana and piano balladry, his brothers' loss is everyone else's gain. [May 2014, p.110]

Back in the real world, fans of the disconnected Callahan know what to expect. They're a loyal breed who puzzle over his dryly funny lyrics and file the CDs next to Mark Eitzel and Nick Cave... His best yet.

[Producer Mutt] Lange proves an excellent match. Never before have Bellamy's guitars sounded so terrific. [Jul 2015, p.110]

Hardly groundbreaking, but heartfelt all the same. [May 2011, p.116]

It's engagiing enough that even the happily perplexing nine-minuter "The Well" breezes by with no danger of outstaying its welcome. [May 2010, p.117]

Her penchant for acid blurts and seductive basslines rings throughout this characterful collection, drawing constellations between electro glitz, darkwave gloom and post-punk austerity. [Aug 2018, p.111]

This is a beguiling breeze of an album that never loses its cool.

Beautifully low-key, gently life-affirming. [Sep 2018, p.110]

You don't need an encyclopaedic knowledge of LA-based folk-rock to enjoy the rough-hewn vocals and gnarled, grainy guitar play of these London-based chums-of-Mumford. [Jun 2013, p.107]

Excellent, although not quite the epoch-defining triumph its hype suggested it might be. [Jan 2004, p.108]

As the set progresses, the trademark Nirvana sound begins to take shape. [Dec 2004, p.152]

It proves gloriously uninhibited. [Sep 2014, p.117]

The threesome's Orcadian tribute is a remarkable modern-yet-ancient mini-musical. [Jul 2012, p.105]

[A] terrific fourth album. [Nov 2014, p.102]

It seemingly exists in another dimension entirely and by the end of the album you feel as if you've just emerged from a a nightclub in Atlantis. [Dec 2013, p.102]

A consistently impressive record. [Dec 2013, p.111]