Altogether, there is a fluid, amniotic quality to the record. Listeners may find themselves spacing out, looking out the window or staring at something, sinking into the riffs and the ASMR-like words that emerge - "We are walking in circles", "She dreams in the future", "Impossible drawing" - amid the hypnotic rise and fall of the synths. [May 2026, p.46]

While the Bowie tribute will probably garner most attention--hey, at least it saves Basinski having to explain the story behind Disintegration Loops again--for me, “A Shadow In Time” is the more absorbing work. [Feb 2017, p.44]

Parades succeeds in avoiding the most perilous pitfalls of simulated whimsy and fey affected vocals to achieve something gloriously endearing. [Nov 2007, p.53]

The music develops through collective improvisation, but it’s supremely focused and tight. These formal qualities are combined with a keen political edge. [Jul 2021, p.58]

Dust floats along meditatively, and is Halo’s warmest and most familial record to date. [Jul 2017, p.52]

With the stylistic anchor lifted, the 12 cuts sound progressively more deranged as they blossom into alien dance floor mutants from bubbles of heady synths, deliriously processed voices, absurd squiggles and reversed beats. ... It’s difficult to imagine a better debut for ex-DFA head Jonathan Galkin’s new imprint FourFour. [Nov 2021, p.48]

A record that is often overwhelming, at times breathtaking. [Nov 2018, p.55]

Borders is Emptyset’s Fury Road--both heavier and cleverer than the trilogy it follows. [Feb 2017, p.47]

The tracks here, presented with the intention that other will use them as a creative starting pint, nevertheless feel fully realised, evoking a succession of fleeting states and ambiguous atmospheres. [Dec 2014, p.57]

Another nuance of Virgins is the pacing. With the exception of a few slightly predictable orchestral driftscapes, Hecker's editing instincts have rarely sounded this restless and razor-sharp. [Oct 2013, p.45]

It seems an easy listen at first, but the scale is daunting. [Feb 2014, p.53]

A good bit stranger-sounding and more interesting in their excavation of the past. [Jul 2017, p.53]

On Bioprodukt, his fourth album for Planet Mu, Edwards’s prolific nature again benefits from the honed ear of label boss Mike Paradinas, who curates a neat ten track journey through recent material. [Jul 2017, p.50]

New York Noise is exemplary: the right mix of 'hits' and obscurities. [#233, p.71]

"K9 Reliance" indulges in faux harpsichord to conjure a convincing giallo theme, devilishly nervous and hush-hush, with brass swells that underscore the cinematic funk. There are a few odds and ends in the mix, too. "K12 Uplands" is a gorgeous pastoral led by woodwinds, tailor made for some adventure game's soundtrack. On "K13 Vigilant", strings and piano chase each other frantically. "K14 Welbeck" closes the album with a glorious organ dirge, reminiscent of Jenkinson's collaborations with James McVinnie. [May 2026, p.56]

The prevalent mood is restless and defiant, with the vulnerability found on earlier albums swept along by a sense that this time they're both lovers and fighters. [Dec 2014, p.57]

It's Ferraro's best since Far Side Virtual. [Oct 2013, p.46]

Like most blockbusters, TM103 lacks some subtlety and depth, but is nevertheless preposterously entertaining, almost unerring anthemic stuff. [Feb 2012, p.71]

Satisfying proof that pop remain pop however thoroughly digested. [Feb 2014, p.54]

Written on a piano and organ instead of guitar and featuring a 24-piece ensemble of strings, winds and brass, -io is the purest realisation of Fohr’s pop sensibilities. [Nov 2021, p.50]

The music on Ism is intimate. Pieces end with a jolt. Brief interludes take a questioning tone, as if the fragments are enough in themselves, no need for resolution. The album’s warmth – a quality shared by McCraven’s output – owes much to the International Anthem engineering approach. [Jan 2019, p.66]

Oczy Mlody fluently balances three decades of untamed experimentation with the poppier sensibilities they've gained along the way. [Feb 2017, p.51]

Musically, Ace Of Cups remains more or less faithful to the instrumentation and stylistic idioms of the place and time in which the band formed. ... Other songs on this sprawling debut tend toward the folksy, bluesy and disarmingly earnest. [Feb 2019, p.55]

Prepare to be enchanted. [Oct 2014, p.61]

Hoffmeier’s fourth solo album The Drought sees her graduating from the Copenhagen based label Posh Isolation to PAN to deliver her strongest statement yet. [Nov 2018, p.62]

The duo have created a world of two halves; a land of tension and mystery that collides with a place of release and transcendent sorrow. [Feb 2017, p.55]

The 11 songs here are energised, chest beating anthems that are positively soul elevating. [Oct 2014, p.61]

A World Lit Only By Fire finds Godflesh on pleasingly resolute form. [Dec 2014, p.57]