It might well be their best album yet. [Sep 2019, p.116]

It's their broadening of the musical palette which is more impressive. [Aug 2015, p.112]

She's utterly beguiling, a fresh presence at last in singer-songwriter land. [Jun 2003, p.95]

It's the overall sense of joie de vivre which makes Where The Heaven Are We such a triumph. [Aug 2013, p.101]

It's true that none of the tracks here quite scale the heights reached early in his career.... But... James is at least trying to move beyond what he's achieved already. [May 2006, p.124]

Such Hot Blood is best when it's at its most anthemic. [Nov 2013, p.101]

Memories Are Now is an inventive nine-song affair. [Apr 2017, p.112]

Motion To Join makes the druggiest meanderings of the similar "Spiritulized" sound full of pep. [Dec 2008, p. 126]

I Love You. It's A Fever Dream is hardly cluttered, but it's those little details that really lift his fifth LP as The Tallest Man On Earth. [Aug 2019, p.116]

We get their most pastoral outing to date, piano ballads one minutes, laid-back Neil Young the next. [July 2010, p. 129]

The Grenoble DJ/producer's third and best solo release, may feature some ropey lyrics, but the sultry dominatrix voice in which she intones them helps her get away with it. [Jul 2013, p.108]

Battered, bonkers and bewitching in equal parts, Yankee Hotel Foxtrot at last finds Wilco's "interesting" phase becoming downright fascinating. [May 2002, p.121]

It's clear that MacLean and Whang have never sounded better. [Oct 2014, p.112]

File besides Peaking Lights as odd couple doing weirdly accessible wonders. [Dec 2012, p.112]

Ghost Culture's self-titled debut often feels like eavesdropping on a late-night confessionary: one where influences such as Kraftwerk, Depeche Mode mastermind Martin Gore and Soulwax are fused into a thundering, fluid whole. [Feb 2015, p.109]

The Union has pulled off the canny trick of allowing Elton to revisit his past, while still sounding like a songwriter looking and moving confidently towards the future. [Dec 2010, p.106]

Ultimate Success Today is convulsed by End Times thoughts of collapse and an American dream eating itself. [Aug 2020, p.111]

This is the sound of a band hitting their stride, albeit belatedly. [#361, p.116]

Hunting My Dress rejoices in an off-the-cuff dreamlike sensuality, pitching and rolling in all sorts of pleasingly unexpected directions. [Dec 2009, p. 115]

Five years ago she collaborated with Brian Eno and U2 producer Daniel Lanois on the ambient Wrecking Ball. Now she returns with a less intense but no less powerful new record that continues that album's heavy/ethereal vibe, courtesy of producer (and Wrecking Ball engineer) Malcolm Burn, but with a more melodic touch.

This collection is laced with a compelling sense of psychosis. [Dec 2003, p.156]

A mind-bogglingly diverse four-hour-plus odyssey. ... A stand-alone single-disc sampler featuring 10 DRIFT highlights ranks as Underworld's finest long-player since 1999's Beaucoup Fish. [Dec 2019, p.114]

Free Nationals say less about the band's identity than it does their taste, skill and curatorial clout--but that's still more than plenty. [Feb 2020, p.112]

This is a very impressive, ambitious debut. [Oct 2014, p.113]

Gonzales works with subsonic electronics, shoegazey ambiance and lush orchestration to create a wildly ambitious, often visionary record. [Nov. 2011, p. 136]

Cocoa Sugar finds Young Fathers at a fascinating juncture: opening up, moving forward, but still existing in a sonic hall-of-mirrors world of their own. [Apr 2018, p.104]

This won't alienate any fans--his voice is as soothing as ever--but it's pleasing to see him stimulating more than just a goofy grin. [Mar 2008, p.102]

It makes for one of the few Christmas albums that stands repeated listening. [Jan 2009, p.116]