It's a bedroom album, albeit an intelligent, challenging one. [Jan 2008, p.110]

A career-best mind-melter. [Sep 2018, p.117]

Throughout, Grace's gift of melody is only surpassed by her candid lyricism. [Oct 2016, p.105]

It's the album's introspective second half which delivers the punch. [Mar 2018, p.109]

Missy and Timbaland give us what we've come to expect--the sexiest, most ear-popping, jaw-dropping fusion of old-school rap tribute, sparse R&B, mutant bhangra, and beat innovation on Planet Pop. [Feb 2004, p.100]

A vibe of maverick playfulness married to fabulous tunes. [Apr 2002, p.106]

There's plenty of regret and "emotional disgust," but it's applied with piercing guitar lines that resemble a soppier Interpol. [Mar 2004, p.112]

Alkaline Trio subvert their perky, zinging three chord mall-punk with misanthropy, melancholy and alcohol-sodden, world-weary wisdom. [Jun 2003, p.92]

A dense, fascinating, idiosyncratic and accomplished art rock album.

Can be summed up succinctly: Damon Albarn sings The Smiths. [Nov 2004, p.130]

Surprisingly conventional. [May 2007, p.124]

Arc is a missive from the heart as well as the head. [Feb 2013, p.100]

Fans of Real Estate in particular, will be in ecstasy. [Jun 2016, p.117]

Fusion of nerdiness and fun. [Summer 2018, p.109]

Powerful soul medicine best taken a track at a time. [Nov 2012, p.101]

Smooth and intermittently sublime it may be, but their previous weirdness is much missed. [Jun 2006, p.117]

Like a musical Bill Hicks, Snider's easy humour expresses his nonetheless serious message with a grace and poignancy few can muster. [Jun 2012, p.96]

Grumbling Fur largely inhabit their own wonderful world, dreaming up very old-school British psychedelia that hints at the rituals behind the privet and sigils on the parquet floors. [Sep 2014, p.109]

There's scarcely a moment here that doesn't light a fire. [May 2017, p.100]

'I Heard Wonders' and the title track are standouts, blissed-out epics suggestive of U2 tangling with 'The Jesus And Mary Chain,' while instrumentals 'Story Of The Ink' and 'Theme/IMC' radiate desolate beauty. [Oct 2008, p.147]

This second album packs sock-it-to-me punch aplenty in 12 tunes that just happen to be about the Lord. [Sep 2014, p.114]

Like Talib Kweli... she mixes precise diction with writing that's high on observation and metaphysical promise. [Dec 2004, p.137]

Fans will be baffled, but this is magnificently deranged stuff. [Nov 2006, p.147]

Inevitably, though, there's an unevenness to the improvised soundscaping. [Mar 2005, p.101]

The Stand-In succeeds in sounding expansive without losing any of its intimacy. [Apr 2013, p.109]

Supernature sounds brilliantly here and now. Less coldly perverse than Black Cherry, it's also a lot of fun. [Sep 2005, p.110]

This debut album is free of the scowling raps that made grime such an abrasive prospect the first time round. [Nov 2012, p.104]

A house album that strips out the weaknesses while putting boosters under the strengths. [Aug 2015, p.113]