A set that sounds hauled up from another time and place. [Aug 2018, p.111]

It's an album that makes you feel the real Florence Welch is only beginning. [Aug 2018, p.106]

Overall, Endless Scroll feels self-righteous and misses the crucial idea that insurrection can actually be fun. [Jul 2018, p.108]

Be More Kind strikes a balance between the personal and the political. [Jun 2018, p.116]

The whole exercise has an infectious exuberance, even if it isn't quite the must-have document its title suggests. [Summer 2018, p.114]

It's a hugely entertaining album. A musical travelogue whose breadth of styles fits the vast nation it eulogises. [Summer 2018, p.107]

Moral and financial considerations aside, this stands a monument to success and excess. [Summer 2018, p.118]

It's that juxtaposition between sunshiny pop and yearning lyrics that defines much of The Now Now. ... This latest chapter in the Gorillaz story sounds like a deeply confessional one. [Summer 2018, p.108]

They've revealed themselves as a rare, brilliant talent. [Summer 2018, p.104]

Now it would seem that the 40-year-old is keen to get back to that place, smashing through extremo rockers such as You Get To Rome and enjoying himself so much that he often audibly breaks into laughter. Sometimes, though, it tips over in to jammy self-indulgence. [Summer 2018, p.110]

It's breathless and occasionally shallow, but never less than entertaining. [Summer 2018, p.114]

Zebra finds Georgopoulos in purely instrumental mode, boundary-blurring jazz, African, Balearic and kosmische influences with mixed results. [Summer 2018, p.106]

The latest outing re-establishes them as sculptors of heavy-but-humourous CD-length aural odysseys. [Summer 2018, p.113]

Thirty years in NIN sound reinvigorated. [Summer 2018, p.116]

The fifth outing as Immersion finds the couple at their most sumptuous. [Summer 2018, p.110]

Washington's gift for euphonic arrangements and eagerness to explore new forms is evident throughout. [Summer 2018, p.115]

It's liable to tail off in trippier moments, but Kazuashita is magical enough to reward its hyperactive ambition. [Summer 2018, p.109]

The music itself remains more in debt to Blue Note classicism, but the palatability is alluring. [Summer 2018, p.113]

The result is a record that's more one-note wonder than fully-fledged triumph. [Summer 2018, p.109]

It might be summer, but autumnal is the atmosphere here. [Summer 2018, p.114]

Animal Wisdom is pretty enough, while drone epic Silent Stream nails his Velvets fetish. But to call the other Nuggets-style fodder here "something else" is overstating it. [Summer 2018, p.109]

Whatever she make you feel, it's a ferociously sensual work. [Summer 2018, p.117]

It's a patchwork, with many edges left untrimmed, but Idehen's word's are always worth leaning in for. [Summer 2018, p.106]

A pleasingly, gently adventurous collection. [May 2018, p.104]

Despite the relaxed setting, these songs have a restless urgency. [Summer 2018, p.106]

A brisk 11 tracks and not a duff moment on it. [Summer 2018, p.106]

It's hard to keep up, but it's an enjoyably bonkers journey. [Summer 2018, p.113]

Rhythmically complex yet deftly controlled. [Jul 2018, p.116]