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

If the results are sometimes insubstantial, they can also be richly atmospheric. [Oct 2009, p.118]

Truelove's Gutter is a beautiful album. [Oct 2009, p.113]

Why? always had the brains, now they've located their heart. [Nov 2009, p.115]

In comparison, the second solo album from Broken Social Scene/Stars vocalist Amy Millan can't help but seem just a little routine. [Jan 2010, p. 126]

Rather like Red Hot Chili Pepper John Frusciante's solo work, Malone pootles around the margins of commerciality, nodding to the avant mischief of Buthole Surfers and engaging folksy clatter of Devandra Banhart, while on Driftwood Heart the vocals are almost oepratic. [Dec 2009, p. 120]

What it lacks in orginality, it makes up for in sky-filling exhilaration. [Oct 2009, p.107]

Orthodoxy is dispensed with here, with varible results. [Nov 2009, p.103]

Compellingly bleak is a tough mood to sustain, however, and tracks sucj as 'Interrupted' edge them toward generic stadium territory. [Nov 2009, p.112]

Negotiate the idea that you're eavesdropping on a social anthropology seminar and ther are thrills to be had. [Nov 2009, p.110]

It's been a long time coming, but Brit-rap's first genuinely huge album is here. [Oct 2009, p.104]

For the first time in their 19-year career, Pearl Jam actually sound--whisper it--fun. [Oct 2009, p.119]

By breathing life into Richey Edwards's own last words, his friends have crafted not a memorial but a celebration. [Jun 2009, p.120]

It's confessional late-night fare but the warmth of Fink's soulful voice is captivating. [Jun 2009, p.121]

Epic pop has a new face, and it belongs to Joe 90. [Jun 2009, p.122]

If they tend toward the opaque, a soothing vibraphone or twinkling guitar arpeggio is never too far away. [Oct 2009, p.108]

Chalk this one down purely to an arrangement of Tinseltown convenience. [Oct 2009, p.115]

All this is but a prelude to the albums extaordinary, elegant climax, Bellamy’s three part, 12 minute orchestrial work 'Exogenesis: Symphony.' [Oct 2009, p.102]

A refreshing listen. [Dec 2009, p.120]

This exemplary boxset tells the whole, rather sorry saga of how a band who seemingly had everything going for them ended up with precisely nothing. [Oct 2009, p.122]

The resulting clash of classicial forms and electronics is a startling mix of chance and design. [Oct 2009, p.108]

It's sprawling beast, but for all its occasional spots of indulgence it's a towering achievement. [Oct 2009, p.115]

A reflection on a childhood spent between Glasgow and Newcastle, Get Lucky is all muted colours, bluesy licks and hard-won wsdom, delivered with a subtlety benefitting the presence of Scottish multi-instrumentalist John McCusker. [Oct 2009, p.113]

A genuinely quirky record. [Oct 2009, p.112]

Turn It Up is a wasted opportunity, weighed down by beige soul ballads and cheap-sounding R&B that could have been cranked out for any talent show contestant. [Oct 2009, p.113]

There's little revelatory, but it's another fine record to add to their cannon. [Oct 2009, p.119]

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]

Infectious, sun-bleached and psychedelic--the welcome return of a South American institution. [Oct 2009, p.114]