IN Memory he finds his most reflective tone--the hurt still keening, but distant enough now to bring a gentleness and fluidity to his thought. [Jul 2016, p.111]

The folowing eight songs amount to a proper return to formm, with Middleton's always literate eye for trivial detail matched by catchy acoustic pop tunes and an underlying bleakness that is quietly gripping. [Jul 2009, p.128]

The acoustic-leaning song-cycle Hendra presents mature reflections on memory and loss. [May 2014, p.120]

Finisterre distills their Mellotrons, strummed guitars and electronic beats to a fine essence. [Oct 2002, p.114]

Fans will debate stand-outs but Brothers will shiver the spine of anyone in love with unsanitised rock'n'roll. [Jun 2010, p.128]

Us bristles with huge choruses and idiosyncratic lyrics, albeit suggesting that Pet Sounds is his record collection. [Apr 2003, p.111]

For all the fraughness there are unpredictable but always apposite moments of beauty. [Jun 2010, p.128]

This compilation once more confirms, Wyatt demands, deserves and ultimately abundantly repays, the fullest attention. [Dec 2014, p.120]

A fiercely well-assembled soundtrack that blends '80s pop and club classics with more recent R&B innovations. [Apr 2017, p.116]

He'll always be too mannered for mainstream acceptance, but there's unarguable brilliance here. [Nov 2010, p.105]

It's a revelation from start to finish and up there with Oldham's best work. [Mar 2013, p.107]

Intimately compelling, from his first strum to last breath, Regan passes the acid test of songmanship; all 10 are perfect as they are. [Feb 2013, p.109]

Gargoyle takes the electronic bedrock of its 2014 predecessor Phantom Radio and kicks it up a notch. [Jun 2017, p.109]

The grandstanding result sounds like U@ if Bono had decided tattoos, obscure piercings and the occasional sore-throated growl were the way forward. [Jan 2011, p.135]

Hypnotic electronic grooves. [April 2012, p.90]

It's remarkably poised, perfectly calibrated vocal swells evoking the synthetic English pastoral of XTC or Julia Holter's experimental layering. [#361, p.112]

Eerie yet often enthralling electronica. [Aug 2019, p.108]

Your Future Our Clutter is the Fall's finest in years. [Jun 2010, p.133]

The follow-up is far more coherent, as passionate but resisting the temptation to press the button marked "Gotterdammerung" with quite such abandon. [Dec 2010, p.103]

The real revelation of this new Smile is its melodic depth, even if lyricist Van Dyke Parks's oblique ruminations seem unnecessarily flowery. [Nov 2004, p.114]

:?q:,ails is much better than a collaboration between a former Luscious Jackson keyboardist and a former Breeders bassist has any right to be.... the surprise derives from the convincing Gallic pop-meets-Brazilian tropical-meets-American prairie blend.

Toronto outfit, The Weekend, have been hailed as one of the most exciting new sounds in modern R&B -- hype that, on the basis of this equally startling follow-up, seems entirely justified. [Nov. 2011, p. 138]

The scale and bombast of this record are inescapable, it has a swagger one might associate with acts far bigger than those in the cult hero waters Furman swims in. [Mar 2018, p.112]

Here he finally found a head-expanding, mind-frazzling voice all of his own. [Jan 2016, p.108]

It's a welcome, and much needed, breakthrough. [Apr 2017, p.118]

When they really hit their Ultravoxian stride on Clipped Wings or the piano breaks through the wall of synthesizer on Migrating Clay Pigeon, they're really quite spectacular. [Jul 2012, p.107]

Lewis has never sounded on stronger form than she does here. [May 2019, p.109]

The 50-minute opus is an ambient masterclass. [Nov 2010, p.112]