Brick Body Kids Still Daydream is a sublimely reflective slice of nostalgia with none of the comfort or security that term implies--it’s a both hysterically funny and sharply political skewering of the games nostalgic reverie can play on people, and a people’s consciousness. [Oct 2017, p.67]

There’s one serious misfire, a skit where Crazy Titch reassures us that everyone in his prison block agrees you’re never “too gang to listen Stormzy”, but mostly his wariness lends the album a series of unresolved tensions more perfectly poised than any other grime album to date. [May 2017, p.55]

There’s a sweetness, and an earnestness, driving these ecstatic breakbeat rave confections (you can hear the influence of Drew’s hardcore-heavy record collection too). In someone else’s hands that mood could feel forced, or just plain naff, but Resonant Body never does – if your hairs don’t stand on end for the daft euphoria of “Spin Girl, Let’s Activate” or the raw junglism of “Ecstatic Beat”, it’s about time you got off the dancefloor. [Oct 2019, p.64]

Lennox is an innovator and a stylist, impossible to accurately imitate or easily dismiss. [Feb 2015, p.50]

Although the album is ostensibly live, the natural effects Galás can create in her voice places the album in an uncomfortably solitary place, as if the audience has been struck dumb, the piano close, Galás herself able to fly like a spirit to any point within the church’s space. [Apr 2017, p.53]

Cross’s ability to get the job done with his stripped down trio is the real achievement here. [Mar 2019, p.65]

It’s invigorating and a ton of fun. [Sep 2018, p.63]

On top of the crisp, sympathetic playing, the songwriting and vocals stand out with tunes that could have come straight from the Treasure Isle songbook. [Sep 2016, p.59]

Like most Aphex Twin releases Collapse contains moments of queasy brilliance. [Oct 2018, p.48]

It’s not just that this set feels way more focused and streamlined than the debut; the band have also been sharpened up by incessant live work to the point where Lally and Canty are murderously diamond-tight, and Pirog is flat-out incredible, encouraged by the sheer precision of what backs him to fly into some gloriously discordant fuzzed-up psych and post-punk abrasion. [Nov 2019, p.56]

The sounds produced here move beyond music and closer to language. These machines seem to speak, generating a kind of emergent syntax. Osmium resist genre and resolution, channeling collapse into rhythm and rhythm into form. [Jul 2025, p.58]

There are moments when the structure of this album fails to centre itself, and it is easy to get lost in the finer details of the arrangements. ... It is clear from Love Streams, with its increased manipulation of vocals and wider palette, that he is becoming braver. [Apr 2016, p.51]

Real feast of words expressing a way more convoluted and realistic portrait of a conflicted British psyche. [Jul 2019, p.55]

The minimal tracks here stretch (and sometimes tangle) like long chains of extruded material, pulsing along into the future. [Jun 2019, p.68]

A typically lightfooted zip through the ironies and anxieties of the modern world. If “Do Things My Own Way”, “JanSport Backpack” and “Running Up A Tab At The Hotel For The Fab” don’t become setlist staples, then I’ll eat my hat (and yours). [Aug 2025, p.59]

You know what you're getting with both artists, but they have created a sequel that surpasses its predecessor. [Oct 2025, p.65]

Th art here is ensuring that too much is in fact just enough, and Rustie is a master of it. [Oct 2011, p.51]

The trio are in classic 1970s rock mode throughout. [Mar 2012, p.53]

She’s an astonishing live performer, but this is the next best thing and most likely a shoo-in for the best concert recording of 2022. [Mar 2022, p.46]

The weakest moments of this set are those that try to bludgeon the listener with noise. [May 2017, p.57]

A total blast from start to finish. [Dec 2021, p.59]

An immensely satisfying album which repays multiple listens. [Jun 2025, p.53]

A powerful and evocative sound journey. [Jan. 2012, p.64]

By zeroing in on the darkness at the heart of an economy demanding a constant turnover of novelty, they've made something deeply essential for the moment. [Nov 2012, p.57]

The album is not so much a departure as a continuation of Pavement, satisfying and occasionally inspired. [#205, p.59]

Another charming collection. [#248, p.51]

At the heart of the album is a propensity for pop, memorable and simple – but Vanishing Twin are at their strongest when this impulse collides with an equally powerful drive towards texture and sensation – witness the propulsive “In Cucina” for example, or the furtive “Tub Erupt”. [Oct 2021, p.56]

Grush treats us to another set of strange and beautiful bangers. [Jul 2024, p.64]