A pretty good, not great, pop record. [Christmas 2025, p.132]

True, tangible contrasts in their approaches to singing emerge, with Katie’s voice often soaring above the backdrop and Allison’s delivery more often immersed in the arrangements. Yet when they harmonise, as on supremely confident album standout Wasteland, they sound innately simpatico. [Christmas 2025, p.134]

The four volumes of the Anthology offer an impressive overview of 12 years of work (plus the Threetles and the Twotles). [Dec 2025, p.88]

The compelling results span creepy lounge music, homebrewed pop, suicide folk, the attempted channelling of Simply Red and a lo-fi glam piece that's about as sexy as the dimmed lights scene from I'm Alan Partridge. [Dec 2025, p.101]

A hard bop masterclass, that's for sure. [Nov 2025, p.95]

The Miracle Year pairs this [First Avenue club] show with other assorted tracks, most of which sound like a glorious, scratchy cassette bootleg, led by the galvanizing Celebrated Summer and Chartered Trips. [Dec 2025, p.91]

Reimagines songs from his catalogue alongside some new cuts and captures him on brilliant form. [Dec 2025, p.101]

At every turn, the vocal powerhouse reminds us why her songs have connected on such a large scale. [Dec 2025, p.101]

Among the highlights, Taking Out The Trash's dissonant, Herbie Hancock-esque electronics are grounded by punk funk basslines; Stepping In/The Loop's repetitive, guitar-and-synthesizer rhythms prove giddily hypnotic while the shimmering Brood Board SHROOOM embraces celestial strains of ambient jazz. [Dec 2025, p.103]

There's a lot going on here on what is a balanced and well-crafted album. [Dec 2025, p.98]

A solo album full pf easygoing blues, folk and rock that boasts insightful observations about aging and forging forward while navigating the modern world. [Dec 2025, p.102]

The slower songs could sometimes do with more polish but there's enough doomy intent to keep the devoted happy. [Dec 2025, p.103]

Dressed to impress. [Dec 2025, p.103]

Rich, warm and suffused with a lambent light of hope, A Bridge To Far sustains Midlake’s core values with a spirit of care and community that seems built to endure. [Dec 2025, p.102]

Her voice may sound a little deeper and more gravelly and her delivery might be punctuated with a few more breaths at times, but there's no denying her command and power. [Dec 2025, p.100]

Lloyd creates sound tapestries that are by turns ethereal (Abide With Me), haunting (Desolation Sound), and imbued with the evocative earthiness of the blues (Chulahoma). [Dec 2025, p.90]

A little more of Final Girl's filmic atmospherics might have added life and range, but when Drank The Sap hits its stride, Witch Fever max the catharsis with satisfying force. [Dec 2025, p.103]

A beautifully rambling set that sounds like chums making it up as they go along deep in the woods. [Dec 2025, p.92]

The result is low-key and likeable. [Dec 2025, p.101]

A fun, compelling caricature of 80s heavy rock which will be enjoyed by those whose favourite version of Iron Maiden is when they really go overboard. [Dec 2025, p.101]

Opening track Woman IS The N***** Of The World has been quietly omitted, which will probably enrage Lennon completists, surely the set's biggest buyers. [Dec 2025, p.91]

Through The Open Window has, by necessity, a limited aperture – those inclined to do so will argue passionately over the merits of this take or that performance, officially or unofficially sourced, in forums where such discussions can be a bloodsport – but it nonetheless offers an expansive view of the many sides of Bob Dylan. [Dec 2025, p.93]

And Your Song Is Like A Circle may not be overly diverse in its palette, but as every track flows gracefully into the next, listeners might just appreciate that fact. [Dec 2025, p.103]

Most of these instrumentals packs a punch, and in a variety of different ways. For the most part, crucially, it sounds as though the musicians are enjoying themselves. [Dec 2025, p.103]

At times, Katie Ball's high-pitched vocals bring a somewhat incongruous phantasmagorical element. But they bring the tunes, too. [Dec 2025, p.101]

This 14th offering is less reunion comeback, more business as usual. It's an album which follows a similar blueprint to most of their others. [Dec 2025, p.101]

Their innate feel for a hit pop chorus is deployed to best effect on Dearest Amygdala and the soaring It's Chemical!. [Dec 2025, p.100]

Although Holy Visions teeters on the wrong edge of mope-rock melodrama, it's an exception; otherwise, Silver Bleeds The Black Sun is a black-clad, clove-smoking triumph. [Dec 2025, p.100]