It's impressive she even had enough time to record an album, let alone one as accomplished as Fading Lines. [#361, p.107]

The overall effect is of a band who have experienced life's slings and arrows but now exude both tenderness and wisdom. [Jul 2016, p.106]

Catching the eye more than the ear, the rickety Maybe I Am Amused features Nirvana's Krist Novoselic. Meatier stuff surfaces on the quintessentially sludgy War Pussy, while I Want To Tell You thrillingly imagines Osborne's heroes, Kiss, covering The Beatles in hypermelodic proto-psych mode. [Jul 2016, p.111]

For all the deft production touches, it's Lanza's lost-on-the-dancefloor persona, at once sensuous and mysterious, which supplies the magic touch. [Jul 2016, p.109]

It all makes for a remarkable second album. [Jul 2016, p.110]

These songs are Blake at his best and most sonically inventive. At 75 minutes-plus and 17 tracks, though, the whole presents a challenge at odds with the sensitivity of those romantic reveries. [#361, p.117]

The middle section boast a tougher, truculent edge reminiscent of last year's mixtape If You're Reading This It's Too Late. But it's during the final sequence that everything clicks. [#361, p.114]

Lemonade hits hard. Beyonce has chosen to portray herself like this, and those choices are bold, powerful and at times, properly shocking. [#361, p.110]

For the most part, though, the excellence of what's here is less a matter of particular details than the way they combine to produce long stretches of real magic. [#361, p.104]

Eyes On The Lines is the follow-up to his excellent 2014 album Way Out Weather and it finds Gunn rolling down the same never-ending dusty highway. [Jul 2016, p.108]

It's straightforward rock'n'roll and it's done with irresistible vim and contagious melody. [Jul 2016, p.107]

All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us is a confrontationally loud, brilliant album, and every bit as bleak as its title. [Jul 2016, p.103]

Traces of Interpol, The Chameleons and post-rock heavies Trans Am are all over these songs, but if Fews don't wear their influences lightly, they know how to show them off to dark advantage. [Jul 2016, p.106]

The best moments are the ones that--whisper it--don't sound anything like the Grateful Dead. [Jul 2016, p.118]

An intriguing drivetime playlist results. [Jul 2016, p.109]

Separations, divorce, remarriage and kids all feed into 12 tracks of disastrous love, welcome redemption and rekindled fire, but not everything works. [May 2016, p.111]

It won't change the world, but These People will give those other troubadours something to think about. [Jun 2016, p.106]

Unlike the singer, the songs need to project a little more, but Beauty Already Beautiful sounds an intriguing first note. [Jul 2016, p.114]

The Heart Speaks In Whispers is the sound of her getting it right again. [Jul 2016, p.105]

Nothing quite matches its [Snow's] shock and awe and there's some of the old water-treading in Falling, but there's menace in the repetition of "my tears well up and cry for you" on the spooked Petals and she's never sounded quite so otherworldly as she does on Corduroy Legs. [Jul 2016, p.113]

Having given himself just eight tracks to play with, Broder ends up with more ideas than he has songs to fit them into. [Jul 2016, p.106]

Weber's trademark fusion of cascading chimes and subdued yet propulsive rhythm has expanded radically in scope. [Jul 2016, p.113]

At times, this records triggers the vision of Ivor Cutler fronting Pet Shop Boys, the barrage of synths and layered vocals making for a mostly exhilarating experience. [Jul 2016, p.112]

Yak shoot from the hip with an impetuous first-timers' racket that's rarely short of breathtaking. [Jul 2016, p.113]

A beautiful album that nudges a classic past into a brave future. [Jul 2016, p.109]

Disengage your brain; you might just enjoy it. [Jul 2016, p.115]

It might all sound as comfortable as an old cardigan feels but at this point, that seems fair enough. [Jul 2016, p.115]

Those ideas aren't all great, but the strike rate is remarkably high. [Jul 2016, p.114]