Thrilling and vital sounding stuff. [May 2019, p.111]

Highly eccentric and blisteringly beautiful--a record destined to worm its way deep under the skin. [Jun 2019, p.117]

Morby's songs move from the grandiose to hushed confessionals and by the time it ends with Dylan-like O Behold the entire journey feels like a revelation. [Jun 2019, p.115]

On this excellent record, she maps a route forward. [Jun 2019, p.109]

Longer, looser, less eager to impress, and more American than its predecessors ... Vampire Weekend's prettiest album is also their weightiest. [June 2019, p.106]

So much here seems big and bright, but underneath there's a greyer area to explore. [June 2019, p.116]

This latest installment unearths yet more rare and diverse dancefloor gems. [June 2019, p.119]

It's a mode that has little time for novelty or subtlety but plenty of potential to crowd-please on both sides of the pond. [June 2019, p. 108]

Short on visceral thrills, but long on soul and dexterity. [May 2019, p.108]

Historic recreation pop, yes, but it presents beautifully. [June 2019, p.111]

While it doesn't measure up to such great break-up albums as Beck's Sea Change or Blur's 13, Social Cues still possesses emotional heft. [June 2019, p.108]

The distance from here to early triumphs Entertainment! and Solid Gold seems like a long one. [Jun 2019, p.112]

Treading the line between artful and emotive, it's a quiet riot. [May 2019, p.112]

Simons and Rowlands are making music that has the dizzying plasticity of their best work. [Jun 2019, p.113]

Beautiful stuff. [Jun 2019, p.116]

Whereas on record the songs tended towards the delicate, here they're fleshed out, with a richer sound that evokes The Zombies or Love. More vital, is how the set-up re-imagines earlier material. [Jun 2019, p.116]

The net result is an album that hangs suspended between Earth and the stars. [Jun 2019, p.116]

A thrilling record of an artist in his element. [Jun 2019, p.115]

What A Boost sounds like somebody trying to make a confusing world slot together in a way that ultimately makes sense. [Jun 2019, p.115]

Her dark theatrics dominate 68 Screen, evoking '70s punks X-Ray Spex with a call-and-response about women's commodified bodies. [Jun 2019, p.115]

Rarely has a band justified the attention put upon them so beautifully. [Jun 2019, p.112]

Touching and thoughtful, these 16 tracks are tended with the same care Clark brought to his beautiful storytelling. [Jun 2019, p.111]

The threadbare production which previously stretched ideas to breaking point has been bolstered, adding a warmth to the jangly 626 Bedford Avenue and cocooning the break-up ballad My Japs in plucked acoustics and distant percussion. [Jun 2019, p.111]

This surprising, haunting album will speak powerfully both to her peers and to anyone who remembers how youth can sometimes feel like an overwhelming weight. [Jun 2019, p.110]

Psychodrama is a bold statement from a rapper unafraid to ask tough questions of himself--and the often unforgiving world around him. [Jun 2019, p.108]

A sense of will-this-do? hangs over proceedings, from its terse 10-track running time to the soporific delivery. [Jun 2019, p.108]

Even if diverse moods elude them, they channel disenchantment superbly. [Jun 2019, p.108]

Both enticing and disorientating in equal measure. [Jun 2019, p.116]