This second LP falls slightly short of its predecessor. [Jul 2015, p.105]

As much an art piece as it is a pop record, EWAB would make the perfect accompaniment to an afternoon flat on your back at a sun-strafed festival. [Jul 2015, p.106]

Something special and fascinating and really quite contemporary. [Jul 2015, p.111]

It's a dazzling trip. [Jul 2015, p.108]

He rarely slips into simple pastiche. The real deal. [Jul 2015, p.112]

An album that plays too safe in its thirst for hits. [Jul 2015, p.110]

The follow-up to 1997's Lipslide proves worth the wait. [Jul 2015, p.104]

A record of elegantly woozy street-level songwriting that highlights the links between Dire Straits and Television. [Jul 2015, p.104]

She's A Witch's tumbling harmonies, the tessellating grooves of Dark Star and Bushe's surrealist lyrical skew help cast a dazed spell. [Jul 2015, p.106]

This is spectacular. [Jul 2015, p.115]

Wolf Alice is fiendishly difficult to pin down, bu they're full of inspired ideas rather than lacking direction. [Jun 2015, p.115]

Lyrically unambitious, musically on its laurels, there's no oomph here. [Jul 2015, p.113]

At Times, Tenderness teeters on schmaltz, but Souther's way with a simple melody usually pulls it back. [Jul 2015, p.113]

Everything that made their past albums so engaging--the lopsided melodies, frontman Tim Elsenburg's anguished drawl, those lazy Bacharach-style brass fills--is still here, but harnessed to better songs. [Jul 2015, p.114]

For better or worse, this is exactly how you'd expect the third Leftfield album to sound. [Jul 2015, p.107]

The mood here is still adolescent but with a growing emotional and musical sophistication. [Jul 2015, p.115]

Relatively speaking Home Economics finds a much warmer and more colourful band at work. [Jul 2015, p.112]

A mixed bag, then, but still uniquely one of Herbert's own. [Jul 2015, p.107]

Functional and festival-friendly, their epic naivety quickly becomes wearing. [Jul 2015, p.111]

The results are serviceable. [Jul 2015, p.111]

A black-metal-inspired collection of songs equally beautiful, if largely less accessible to the casual listener. [Jul 2015, p.112]

It's both a delight and a retro-soul how-to. [Jul 2015, p.112]

Peace Is The Mission feels like too much of a splurge to be enjoyable right through. [Jul 2015, p.109]

Gibson's music has a strange timelessness faded and well-mulched, though there are moments when the mood proves a little too sludgy to be memorable. [Jul 2015, p.106]

They mesh exquisitely here. [Jul 2015, p.105]

A bold step, especially as the songs slow-burn rather than star-burst. [Jul 2015, p.105]

Up front, Island is punk-pop par excellence, while, toward the end, Dorian's a blissful medium pacer about carefree journey home. [Jul 2015, p.114]

William's slick pop-R&B effectively smothers Snoop's signature drawl. [Jul 2015, p.113]