The panoramic melancholy may lack variety for some, but sorrow rarely sparkles this wonderfully. [Feb 2014, p.112]

The Black Lips are on consistent and disreputable form throughout. [Apr 2014, p.104]

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

She might not be as well known, but at times she really is that good. [Jun 2013, p.109]

Mixed by Philippe Zdar of Cassius fame, the whole record feels bright, poppy and fresh. [Jun 2011, p.105]

It's all linked by a sense of dignity, wisely chosen collaborators and David Hidalgo's voice. [Aug 2004, p.115]

Their best yet. [May 2003, p.102]

Each songwriter is honored, and often improved by Rumer's thoughtful readings. [Jul 2012, p.109]

Hang is brilliantly ludicrous and ludicrously brilliant. [Mar 2017, p.106]

Expect to be lulled into a contented sonic stupor. [May 2017, p.100]

Everything is supercharged and melodic, like a poppy version of Nirvana. [July 2008, p.111]

Atmospheric and unsettling, it's a thrilling, long dark night of the soul. [Feb 2014, p.116]

[An] accomplished work of depth and distinction. [April 2012, p.88]

At times it's almost too much to take in, the album's secrets and flavours gradually revealing themselves on the third or fourth listen. [May 2014, p.112]

The trio's lyrical style is woven into a bewitching mesh of soul, funk and psychedlia by cut-and-paste guru Madlib. [Mar 2010, p.98]

Hard to get a handle, but easy to love. [May 2011, p.119]

There's a woozy psychedelic spirit behind the gently orchestrated title track and Dream Song's sleepy haze, lending Rault's classicist songwriting an outsider edge. But he never drifts completely free of his moorings. [Sep 2018, p.117]

Gurnsey has pushed his ghost disco to its exhilarating limits. [Aug 2018, p.109]

The feelgood hit of the summer? Quite possibly. [Sep 2003, p.110]

The most Tricky-like he's sounded in years. [Oct 2017, p.104]

Attacking God and country and rubbing his fellow citizens up the wrong way, is par for Manson?s course. Yet never has he done it with quite such passion.

The joyful whole has a depth and swagger that is as life-enhancing as popular music should be. [Mar 2005, p.100]

Saulnier's wild-man-on-a-rampage vocals are no longer hidden behind the unfettered sequel of his equally uncivilized guitar. [Jul 2012, p.109]

Happily, after nearly four decades, The Blue Aeroplanes can still bottle lightning. [Mar 2017, p.107]

The result is a pitch-perfect homage to the old master, whose voice resonates as powerfully as it did a decade ago. [Mar 2020, p.120]

This collection by 18-year-old Chicagoan David Davis makes footworking beats accessible. [Dec 2012, p.106]

When it swells and soars, it doesn't just work. It werks. [Feb 2014, p.115]

Cinematic, crammed full of literary allusions, odd time signatures and mature-in-wood musical textures, Nightingale is a record that will haunt you if you let it. [Mar 2011, p.110]