They've made a fine pop record without compromising their trademark quirkiness.... The band's best work to date. [Aug 2003, p.114]

No Time For Dreaming has the gritty feel of the real thing, a man who's known mostly hard times and tells it with a pleading throaty roar and blood-curdling scream worthy of James Brown. A real find. [Mar 2011, p.117]

It's clever, zesty and kaleidoscopic and sometimes... quite brilliant. [Aug 2002, p.121]

Idol's magnetism is simply colossal--an invaluable commodity in these times. [Dec 2014, p.110]

With the help of Animal Collective produce Ben H Allen, Girls in Peacetime busts the band out of a complacent rut by rendering them in full colour, as a pop group with depth of talent and breadth of vision. [Feb 2015, p.108]

The 10-minute 'Midnight Surprise' is the album's sprawling, beguiling centrepeice, but 'Everyone I Know Is Listening To Crunk' is its bewildered, adorable heartbeat. [Feb 2008, p.96]

They sound truly beguiling. [Feb. 2012 p. 101]

What a wild trip. [Jan 2014, p.133]

There are moments when the slick threatens to overwhelm the raw, and not just when extraneous elements are introduced. But the gut-level punch of Kerr's bass and the thunderstruck gallop of Thatcher's drumming cannot be denied. [Aug 2017, p.106]

Lennon would be proud. [Oct 2009, p.114]

He resurfaes as a country-tinged singer-songwriter of poise and substance. [#361, p.108]

A haunting, left-field album of some class. [Jun 2003, p.96]

Despite the odd bump Sexsmith could be in business at last. [Dec 2002, p.111]

Crucially, as well as nailing the sound perfectly, they do so with a winning passion. [March 2011, p. 117]

An essay in coolly assured, sophisticated leftfield rock, occasionally laden with trademark discordance yet also full of scintillating tunes. [June 2002, p.123]

These folk and country-tinged tunes are melodic, deft and emotive. [Dec 2002, p.108]

This is certainly no party album, and its colours are almost exclusively monochrome, but its majesty reigns supreme. [Sep 2005, p.112]

It's a strange, sometimes excellent record. [Feb 2019, p.119]

A warm, spirited pop record that holds its own against everything else in their canon. [Nov. 2011, p. 134]

Newcomers may be amazed that a rock band can still feel so vital. Even diehard fans will wonder at the sheer melodic intensity. [Feb 2015, p.107]

Only Revolutions has enough in the way of nous, intelligence and tunes to broaden their audience immeasurably. [Dec 2009, p.122]

Universal themes absorbs and moves far more than it frustrates. [Aug 2015, p.113]

These are fine-boned tracks, filled with lops, piano, surges of sound and Tomberlin's hazy voice. But they are carried on the shoulders of great melody, so the effect is of gloriously distorted pop--warm, somnolent, slightly out of focus. [Sep 2018, p.118]

This feels indispensable, as both bereavement therapy and Brexit-era protest. [Oct 2018, p.117]

Cornershop have clearly been biding their time, not squandering it, returning with the kind of meaty, substantial, truly multi-dimensional project they've long been working towards.

David Lewis Gedge seldom received credit for his Sinatra-esque vocal prowess or Dylan-style lyrical insights when fronting The Wedding Present, but his subsequent Cinerama project is a far more intriguing and beguiling affair.

Against the odds, the band have managed to keep things small and strange, and learned a few thrilling new tricks along the way. [Apr 2006, p.110]

This lack of reinvention... does not mean lack of invention. [Jul 2006, p.108]