It's a place where sweet harmony vocals and extreme rock meet, like Crosby, Stills & Nash through an art-punk shredder. [Dec 2005, p.148]

You could lose yourself for days here. [Dec 2005, p.142]

It may well be his strongest ever collection. [Feb 2006, p.98]

Although none of the newcomers quite supply the killer touch, the flow of soft-rock shimmies and cowbell-driven R&B lives up to the guestlist's promise. [Dec 2005, p.156]

Bizarre, but not without appeal. [Feb 2006, p.104]

A work of baroque detail, crossing between Mercury Rev's psychedelic Americana and The Beta Band's bucolic electronica. [Aug 2004, p.110]

The results are perhaps closest in spirit to Rough Trade-period Scritti Politti, all controlled experimentation and unexpected musical shapes thrown to enhance the songs, rather than indulge musical whims. [May 2005, p.112]

It pushes many of the same buttons as DFA/LCD Soundsystem, but with a sensuous Gallic cool missing from the more angular Anglo-Americans. [Jul 2005, p.112]

There's still something truly magical in the wistful clarity of her voice. [Nov 2005, p.131]

The twosome's sincere kitchen-sink music and lyrical pathos mean the tales of Chicago life unravel like a good Paul Auster novel. [Dec 2005, p.150]

For all its rosy glow of nostalgia, it's essentially just another Robbie Williams album--occasionally spectacular, more frequently merely solid. [Nov 2005, p.116]

It's a very strange album indeed. Happily, it's also a very good one. [Nov 2005, p.131]

Radiates good feeling and warmth. [Nov 2005, p.131]

Sounds so sure and committed that it could be the work of a new band. [Nov 2005, p.127]

Harvey's voice is not worthy of heavyweight songwriting. Still, when the songs are lighter, he succeeds. [Oct 2005, p.117]

Sadly, this follow-up shows signs of premature ageing. [Mar 2006, p.109]

Yet for all the nostalgia, the lurching strut of tracks such as Boom Ditty and Breaktime remains undeniably potent and contemporary. [Dec 2005, p.156]

The noisy blackAcetate is the work of a man who is not going to go quietly. [Nov 2005, p.123]

Comes on like an in-your-face Avalanches, with elements of Pavement-style art-rock and a punk attitude thrown in for good measure. [Nov 2005, p.127]

Entertaining in the same way as an episode of Joey: pretty dumb, fairly funny, and you're glad it's over in under half an hour. [Feb 2006, p.100]

With repeated listens, [Geometry] grows in stature, full of intriguing neo-psychedelia. [Oct 2005, p.121]

Instead of intense rock, it's a more atmospheric piece of work. [Nov 2005, p.123]

Doom's bizarre raps prove a good match for Danger Mouse's eclectic approach. [Nov 2005, p.123]

Contains more than its fair share of exquisite melancholy and careering abandon. [Nov 2005, p.123]

It shows a band building a new outpost atop the summit of their achievements. [Nov 2005, p.124]

Stands as an apt reminder that she is the finest soul talent of her generation. [Dec 2005, p.152]

His finest collection of material for 10 years (at least). [Nov 2005, p.118]

If you can forgive them their fondness for epic arrangements, theirs is a debut to transport you to a gentler place. [Jul 2005, p.122]