It might sound a bit much on paper, but Leschper's thought processes result in fantastic music--think Warpaint gone deconstructivism-crazy. [Oct 2018, p.115]

In short, a welcome retelling. [Oct 2018, p.116]

Warped and touching, this is an LP for both higher and lower selves. [Oct 2018, p.119]

Kingdoms In Colour maintains its atmosphere mainly through its use of hypnotic rhythms and light, primary colour trippiness. It could well be the perfect end-of-summer soundtrack. [Oct 2018, p.112]

For all of its typical craftsmanship you can't help but wish it had more moments like the stark despair of My Rock, My Rope. [Oct 2018, p.119]

A return to form have they made. [Oct 2018, p.115]

Overall, there are more steps sideways than great leaps forward. [Oct 2018, p.112]

The first 40 seconds of Spring King's second album are without doubt its most diverting. ... The rest of A Better Life is a uniformly bog-standard collection of Kasabian-like indie rock. [Sep 2018, p.118]

It's a mode that can feel pedestrian in the wrong hands, but Muncie Girls capture the sound's uncomplicated euphoria in style. [Oct 2018, p.115]

Intriguingly between success and failure, as if occupying a musical hinterland of its own. [Oct 2018, p.118]

At times, notably on Honey Bee, Pritchard's lyrics are sugary enough to induce toothache. However, the ever-present feel-good factor makes this an album as impossible to dislike as seeing the sun break through the clouds. [Oct 2018, p.112]

The record conjures an atmosphere of twilit sadness, but the songs themselves--languid and forgettable--fail to mark Stein out from dolorous troubadours past. [Oct 2018, p.116]

Intriguingly mixed bag. [Oct 2018, p.116]

This is the sound of Low finding extremity in a new, thrilling way. [Oct 2018, p.112]

He's on top form here: still damaged, still brilliant, still floating in a musical galaxy entirely of his own creation. [Oct 2018, p.114]

He's enjoying his music far too much to stop now. And so, for the matter, are we. [Oct 2018, p.106]

Old and new reflect off each other, their currents and clashes creating an intriguing weather system that's Anno's alone. [Oct 2018, p.115]

Occasionally sentimental but always endearing, it's impressive stuff. [Oct 2018, p.116]

He's retained much of his fizz, but his new, relatively thoughtful, air means that the piano-led The Bruiser exudes a heap of rue and regret, while the autobiographical Mississippi Delta toasts a bright new future in a bright new place, something this album cements. [Oct 2018, p.116]

This is a starkly beautiful suite of music by a band who--after two decades--just keeping growing in stature. [Oct 2018, p.115]

This feels indispensable, as both bereavement therapy and Brexit-era protest. [Oct 2018, p.117]

A well put-together record, just lacking in heart. [Oct 2018, p.119]

Here he leads by example, creating wonderfully complex, changeable music that dares to be different. [Oct 2018, p.109]

How much you enjoy it will depend on how you feel about largely structureless sonics, but if you just submerge yourself into it, there's plenty to discover. [Oct 2018, p.108]

The tracks are all short, sketching atmospheric outlines before vanishing. [Aug 2018, p.116]

While I Got You's rock-solid funk shows they know how to work up a sweat, the emotional themes don't always connect with equal force, Hatcher sounding most impassioned on 306, an ode to his ageing Peugeot hatchback. [Sep 2018, p.114]

There's a wildness to it, a predatory snarl as it bares its teeth and chases down new ways of expressing desire, different ways of being. [Sep 2018, p.112]

Her's mine post-punk and new wave with a tasteful restraint, fusing Scritti Polotti's twinkling, slinky grooves with the luminous lugubriousness of Orange Juice to create something that feels distinctly theirs. [Sep 2018, p.113]