Impressive and increasingly accessible, this is the sound of a major talent developing. [Jun 2015, p.104]

Yes, there's a touch of the body-painted Glastonbury theatre troupe here, but Let's Eat Grandma's spell is binding. [#361, p.111]

This has a more expansive, almost pop feel. [Dec 2008, p.132]

This time around, though, she's more introspective, less shouty and the result is her most absorbing album since 2005's "Kidnapped By Neptune." [Mar 2010, p.106]

Although comprised of offcuts, it amounts to a great fourth and final record. [Dec 2018, p.104]

In this case, less is more. [Nov 2012, p.106]

It's a clear-eyed first step to turning their ideas into reality. [Oct 2013, p.106]

An lysergic audio treat to sate the hunger of horned nature deities and psychedelic heads alike. [Aug 2015, p.115]

With high-up bassline grooves and synth-psych mayhem oozing from every pore, it's another absolute winner. [Jun 2017, p.105]

Ritter's seventh album may not be quite the same league as Dylan's masterpiece, but post his own divorce it does contain all the same edgy recrimination and pain. [May 2013, p.109]

Sampling Michelle Obama on No Man Is Big Enough For My Arms feels glib, while Vale aspires to Solange-like authority but, unlike their voices never quite strikes the right note. [Nov 2017, p.111]

A winning combination of party grooves and Bush-baiting politics. [Jun 2006, p.113]

These are big, stately songs, packed with rue as much as brio. [Dec 2015, p.103]

This debut seems to tremble on the threshold between the past and the present, the known and unknown, O'Brien's voice and allusive lyrics displaying a mixture of vulnerability and dexterity. [July 2010, p. 137]

An assemblage of electro-pop, affecting melodies and Dear's sonorous voice, Black City variously recalls Talking Heads, LCD Soundsystem and The Magnetic Fields. [Sept. 2010, p. 114]

It's hugely rewarding. [Jul 2006, p.118]

It's great at times, but far more work than it should be. [Jan 2012, p.127]

The defining album of his career, Wasting Light is the sound of Dave Grohl putting his whole life in context. [May 2011, p.110]

All 11 tracks on the album jump, shout and twang the heartstrings, albeit with a knowing wink. [Jun 2013, p.105]

The results are frequently riveting. ... A challenging listen, then, but that's its appeal. [Jun 2017, p.110]

This is nervy, restless music for turbulent times. And all the better for it. [Aug 2018, p.113]

In all that attention to detail, there's flair and fire enough to quash the qualms and revel in people doing something over and doing it right. [Sep 2012, p.97]

A quiet storm of a record. [Nov 2015, p.111]

Williams has offered much to admire, and even more to contemplate. [Mar 2016, p.119]

He's back where he really belongs with the T-Bone Burnett-produced Country Music. [Jun 2010, p.132]

At Mount Zoomer finds them making a giant leap forward, its surfeit of innovation defying easy categorisation. [Aug 2008, p.145]

Canadian electro duo's dreamy fourth album. [Aug. 2011, p. 120]

After just six songs and 17 minutes, the future is sounding admirably open-ended. [Oct 2002, p.118]