Most of the music here finds Earle in admirable form. [Oct 2002, p.106]

Pawn Shoppe Heart is a party album, albeit soundtracking the sort of party where too much alcohol causes lifelong friends to come to blows. [Feb 2004, p.96]

A charming record. [Aug 2014, p.115]

Silencio! really soars when Sadier rails loudly against the injustices of our austerity era, as on Auscultation To The Nation. [Aug 2012, p.109]

Precise, tough, tuneful, ambitious and sexy as hell. [Apr 2005, p.112]

British rapper ups the stakes with boundary-stretching pop turn. [Oct 2011, p.94]

Shears is now too smart a lyricist to need this sort of cartoonish carry-on. And, bar a smattering of filler, the tunes are unstoppable. [Jul 2010, p.124]

Where Grinderman 2 does possess unique ace is its skillfully employed shot of psychedelia. [Oct 2010, p.102]

A downright joyous debut. [Feb. 2012 p. 101]

It's a record that announces its creator as a true force. [Feb 2015, p.113]

My Finest Work is definitely a high watermark, and one that deserves to reach a bigger audience. [May 2019, p.117]

Live At The Cellar Door is the sound of a man enjoying his self-imposed set of limitations. [Feb 2014, p.121]

It's a beautiful piece of work. [June 2009]

They still sound confident and all-conquering. [May 2015, p.103]

With its bright shiny sonics buffed by Blur/Smiths producer Stephen Street, it ranks up there with the best of the early Pretenders albums. [Aug 2020, p.111]

Possibly The Flaming Lips' most upliftingly utopian work since Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots. [Aug 2019, p.111]

Bold and uncompromising, Transmission is Death In Vegas' most coherent and compelling record yet. [Jul 2016, p.110]

Here Lies Love stacks up as an oddly entertaining, off-beat treat. [May 2010, p.126]

Eerie, exotic and utterly enchanting. [Mar 2002, p.116]

It's been a rocky road, but maybe he's finally home. [Dec 2014, p.109]

Unusually welcoming entry point. [May 2020, p.92]

Even the most flint-hearted cynic will struggle not to get caught up in his swivel-eyed lust for life. [Apr 2018, p.116]

Shackles' Gift can sound grandly expansive, yet it's also locked into its own little world, thinking global, acting loco. [Feb 2015, p.117]

This, though, is accessible without compromise. [July 2008, p.106]

They sound revitalised by the radiance of these songs, liberated from the heavy burden of being the Manic Street Preachers. [May 2018, p.102]

Nihilistic Glamour Shots is a 35-minute burst of frustration and cynicism ... Not subtle, but then it doesn't need to be. [May 2018, p.104]

There's a lot going on here. [Apr 2015, p.111]

Thier first albun of entirely self-penned instrumentals should finally see an end of [the world music tag], the fluid yet percussive tunes also impossibly nimble. [Oct 2009, p.116]