Mostly Born In the Echoes is a blast. It's just that sometimes it's a blast from the past. [Aug 2015, p.108]

[The] debut is a blast from start to finish. [Aug 2015, p.104]

In short, Calling Out's not a bad shout if you're looking for something calm and unruffled to soundtrack the summer. [Aug 2015, p.104]

A house album that strips out the weaknesses while putting boosters under the strengths. [Aug 2015, p.113]

A welcome reversal of fortunes. [Aug 2015, p.112]

There's little to grasp here, the chiming guitar of 11 and blustery feedback of 6 excepted. [Aug 2015, p.106]

Years & Years may not be with us for the long haul. But right now, they're picture perfect. [Aug 2015, p.110]

While not exactly rammed with chart-friendly bangers, the likes of Oino's Day-Glo twitch and Mountain's doe-eyed dream pop should hopefully ensure Dust the success that eluded him first time around. [Jul 2015, p.108]

An lysergic audio treat to sate the hunger of horned nature deities and psychedelic heads alike. [Aug 2015, p.115]

Not all the songs are as well-defined as the skittish pop of Our Eyes, however, and while beautifully enunciated melancholy is her default setting, this record could do with more sharp edges. [Aug 2015, p.111]

It's angry, piss-yourself funny, bursting with ideas and endlessly quotable. [Aug 2015, p.107]

It's pretty good. Production values have been upped in the intervening period but rather than smooth out their edges, they only serve to accentuate their fierce, angular approach. [Aug 2015, p.110]

Rest And Be Thankful is as welcome as the first true summer's day in Argyll. [Aug 2015, p.109]

This is Parker's finest achievement yet, with the lavish soundscapes and dense atmospherics often anchored with undeniably catchy hooks. [Aug 2015, p.102]

Worthy, but hard work. [Aug 2015, p.115]

Back To Basics' pub-rock charm wears thin pretty quickly. [Aug 2015, p.115]

They are as fearless and undiminished as ever here. [Aug 2015, p.114]

Universal themes absorbs and moves far more than it frustrates. [Aug 2015, p.113]

His first LP of original material since 2002's October Road slips into earshot with the gentle country lilt of Today, Today, Today and rarely breaks a sweat from here on in. [Aug 2015, p.113]

Though never matching the otherworldly brilliance of their first two albums, Moonbuilding 2703 AD does at least find these 50-something space cadets still aiming for the stars. [Aug 2015, p.111]

More a holding album than a great step up. [Aug 2015, p.111]

He's starting to look like someone who an no longer be held by the confines of his own skull. [Aug 2015, p.109]

These songs aren't as charcoal-stark as her earlier solo work, but the aura of breathy acid-folk enchantment can leave the feeling there is too much atmospheric smoke, not enough revelatory mirror. [Aug 2015, p.104]

An assured first step. [Aug 2015, p.114]

Whatever she's doing, it's working. [Aug 2015, p.109]

Furman's collage approach and his Joanthan Richman-styled variations are charming, full with both life and with tunes. [Aug 2015, p.106]

Their second album has much to recommend it. For the most part, songs fizz by succinctly. [Aug 2015, p.106]

Each of these fine songs could be sung by a blowsy, bruised Blanch DeBois. [Aug 2015, p.109]