It's bold, brassy and way more ebullient than a 75-year-old has any business sounding. [Jun 2012, p.112]

There's barely a wasted note on these nine tracks. [Aug 2014, p.104]

A leap forward. [Apr 2004, p.120]

A brilliant mix of pre-Wings-era oddball genius Macca-isms, the post-hippy blues of Tyrannosaurus Rex and some super-sticky '70s-scented gritty glitter-pop. [Oct 2014, p.110]

The frenzied feel of the record as a whole might scare off some Bloc Party fans, but this is vital, exciting stuff. [Dec 2019, p.113]

Eternally Even retains James's parent band's mystery and washes of sound, but it's underpinned both by his conspiratorial, intimate vocals and a new-found, tacit anger on an album brought forwards to coincide with the US election. [Jan 2017, p.114]

A pleasure, of course. [Dec 2018, p.104]

A richly rewarding listen. [Jul 2006, p.114]

The result is classic rock with a sneer. [Mar 2017, p.108]

It's a decent enough introduction to Antony & The Johnson's early works.... Turning bursts into colour on the accompanying DVD. [Dec 2014, p.106]

What really elevates the songs though, is the underlying weave of Latin-influenced percussion and subtle string arangements which draw deftly on Garzon-Montano's French-Colombian roots. [Mar 2017, p.108]

The self-produced Watershed is the best thing she's done since 1992's "Ingenue." [Feb 2008, p.96]

Exotic, hip and exuding an effortless charm, Costa Blanca is a sophisticated treat from start to finish. [Jan 2014, p.120]

Her lived in voice adds new nuance to material as diverse as the traditional Kimbie and Morrissey's 'Dear God Please Help Me.' [Feb 2009, p.113]

Skins is the sound of a band reinvigorated. [Apr 2011, p.98]

She establishes herself as the freshest voice on the dancefloor. [Apr 2011, p.109]

It doesn't hold back on the lysergic craziness. [Aug 2017, p.106]

While they never quite manage to better the decayed teen-idol horror-pop of Deerhunter, another band preoccupied with the thin membrane between dreams and nightmares, at their best they keep the listener from Playing I Spy with their influences. [Mar 2011, p.107]

There's lashings of charm in the way the songs unfurl, touch upon an array of ethereal womenfolk and end, having gone nowhere much, but prettily.

Stylish yet raw and angry yet enchanted, Bauer creates a smouldering album with a kooky heart. [Aug 2014, p.86]

Lies somewhere between Kate Bush and a deranged Divine Comedy. [Apr 2005, p.124]

Deeply ambiguous yet wittily epigrammatic, You Want It Darker is all one might want from a final testament, short of cosy reassurance. [Dec 2016, p.114]

A collection of wonderful stripped-down folk rock. [Dec 2016, p.106]

Despite the familiar palette, it's brutally effective. [Oct 2012, p.94]

Five albums along and Hot Chip continue to outdo themselves, not to mention most of their peers. [Jul 2012, p.111]

Williams and Hugo's unerring ability to transform a few notes into a sharply mesmeric riff laces their most experimental work yet with immediacy. Alive and well, N.E.R.D. have come back swinging. [Jan 2018, p.111]

If the 17-track Pom Pom does little to un-muddy the waters, within its exploded binliner of '80s FM rock licks, novelty squelch noises and other home-recorded debris, songs of splendour lurk. [Dec 2014, p.106]

[A] frequently sublime follow-up. [Oct 2013, p.105]