Lie Down In The Light is arguably the most various of the records since the own-songs covers album, but it illustrates one of the perversities of Oldham's songwriting. [July 2008, p.45]

It's a generous, open-hearted collection of jams. [Nov 2025, p.50]

Sunny Border Blue marks a return to a less considered, rawer style, and to lyrics which are nakedly confessional, mercilessly exposing her own and other people's weaknesses. [#206, p.67]

Obviously this is well-trodden ground, but even on the brink of corniness, the crunchy satisfaction of Sqürl’s sound makes them extremely listenable. [Jun 2023, p.60]

This set represents a powerful statement on multiculturalism without any need for proselytising. [Jun 2017, p.74]

The undulating, snarling “Black Transit Of Jupiter’s Third Satellite” is a bubbling 12 minute antimatter expanse, the pot of black gold at the end of this particular rainbow. The journey to get there is ravishingly bleak and massaging. [Jan 2020, p.58]

This album will be warmly welcomed by On-U Sound and reggae fans everywhere. [Oct 2023, p.57]

They've come back very strong. [Oct 2025, p.65]

Such excursions don’t amount to the group reinventing their personal wheel, but at just over an hour, this album is about the length of an average Necks performance, and at least as exploratory. [May 2020, p.58]

The album retains a taste for annihilation. [Dec 2015, p.56]

Carter has created a complete work that simultaneously looks back over its shoulder and glares straight into the eye of the future. [Apr 2018, p.50]

He's come up with a debut album that combines vaulting ambition, real musicality and a deceptive deftness of touch. [Jun 2008, p.47]

Their debut album is even more extreme. [May 2012, p.57]

It isn't always the role of political music to come up with solutions. But nothing could be more urgent than the questions SLeaford Mods pose. [Apr 2014, p.58]

Earl has delivered a remarkably clear and impressive record. [Sep 2016, p.52]

The net result is pure expression, where themes and narratives matter less than how he speaks and twists his words into sound art. [Mar 2025, p.63]

The album's high point "Who Wants To Live Forever" is a duet between Reznor and Spanish artist Judeline, and like "Vaster Than Empires" from Reznor and Ross's Queer soundtrack is all the more complex and humane for reaching outside the tight-knit NIN universe. "As Alive As You Need Me To Be" is a fitting phrase to conjure at this point in NIN's lifespan their entire oeuvre has never felt more like a living thing, both within and outside the group. [Nov 2025, p.55]

Packed with energy and furious with ideas. [#269, p.45]

It’s gorgeous stuff, but whether the future she imagines is entropic or hopeful, it’s hard to say. [Mar 2024, p.57]

Cinematic, otherworldy landscapes and expert playing aside, there's something else to the album. Anderson flips expectations of where refrains or rhythms might go. [Jul 2016, p.46]

A slice of otherworldly frolics that does both of its inspirations credit. [Dec 2021, p.61]

Across 13 brief sketches – some only a minute or two long – the groove is paramount. A hint of Afrobeat pops up a few times, here as a sludgy crawl, there as if Tonto’s Expanding Head Band had lugged their gear down to Fela’s shrine. [Jul 2024, p.66]

An impeccably crafted sonic exploration of environmental destruction and renewal, whose haunting soundscapes evoke the textures of fire and ash. Many tracks work with rhythmic, noise shaping filters, lending a throbbing, breathing, convulsive quality. [May 2025, p.66]

The result is an album which will satisfy fans of all the band’s distinct phases without necessarily ingratiating itself to anyone. [Oct 2017, p.61]

The delicacy and lightness of the album is underpinned by mesmerising, rich textures, constantly buzzing and clunking away beneath the surface. [Jan 2019, p.70]

Across these tracks, the searching spirit of Virginia Wing is often challenged, its questions far from being answered – but the album feels more true to life because of it. [Feb 2021, p.56]

This is jazz that’s best heard at maximum volume. [Apr 2018, p.62]

Both totally entertaining and instantly accessible to both avant rap devotees and curious passers-by. [#246, p.66]