The production on Carnival OF Souls is particularly vivid. [Sep 2014, p.58]

It's spiritual chamber music, mythopoetically encrusted, captivating and terrifying at the same time. [Sep 2014, p.55]

The eccentricity of the group remains intact, with tightly structured songs. [Sep 2014, p.55]

The low end may not cause subterranean trolls to bang angrily on their ceilings as with 1993's Earth 2, but the rich textures and Carlson's expressive leads provide plenty to luxuriate in. [Sep 2014, p.54]

This music is rebarbative glitch-puke, circuit-bent footwork with the joy scorched out, every now and then blitzed by what could be described as intelligent gabba. [Sep 2014, p.54]

It's a firm and deliberate withdrawal from the spotlight but one tinged with sharp self-awareness and the humane intelligence that governs all of Bunyan's work. [Sep 2014, p.52]

Despite the celebratory atmosphere, the group's air of menace remains intact. [Sep 2014, p.54]

Brooks builds eight neat instrumentals from gradually layer guitar, playing in a closed circle with himself, a dialogue that is sometimes affecting but more often banal. [Aug 2014, p.59]

Wildest Dreams despite its unapologetic retro stance, is a wild wide. [Aug 2014, p.58]

No one, really, has taken their precise marriage of classic rock 'n' roll moves and steely cybernetic deformity further than themselves. [Aug 2014, p.53]

On Angels & devils, The Bug crystallises a vision of low end and lower urges that feels dangerously universal. [Aug 2014, p.48]

Will To Be Well has a vivid inner life. [Aug 2014, p.49]

The skill and charisma of Mosaic sometimes goes too far.

As awkwardly beautiful as much of dark Comedy is, it's such a tricky album that it is a difficult to warm to. [Aug 2014, p.62]

While this collection of songs is indeed tremendously soft, too many vibrations are swept under the rug of Taylor's voice. [Aug 2014, p.58]

EX is flawed yet enjoyable. [Aug 2014, p.56]

There's some seriously accomplished musicianship here. [Aug 2014, p.55]

It's a much quieter album than its predecessor, more interested in fingering the tears and rips in its luxurious, ambient textures than Black Up's intergalactic boom-bap. It pulses and shimmers like light bouncing off gold, burnishing Palaceer's radiant visions. [Aug 2014, p.51]

The finished product proves too studied and reverent of its sources. [Jul 2014, p.64]

Occasionally it threatens to work. [Jul 2014, p.63]

Celestite cannot simply be characterised as pastiche, however, as the Weaver brothers and Dunn have constructed dramatic instrumentals using the material of previous compositions, ensuring a thematic and sonic continuity with their own past. [Jul 2014, p.61]

It's elegant and pristine, a febrile flutter of rhythms, glinting sequences and pale, shimmering backdrops. [Jul 2014, p.51]

While PTSD is sometimes a slog, it's always substantial. [Jun 2014, p.63]

No album in hiphop history has been less in need of a padding. [Jun 2014, p.63]

Remember Me lacks depth, being essentially a collection of keg party crowd pleasers, but its biggest singles are undeniable. [Jun 2014, p.63]

Future is one of the few true artist of Auto-Tune, and the emotional honesty lying behind trad-rap boasts bleeds from his words in a minor key and a pitch as subtly tremulous as a wobbling bottom lip. [Jun 2014, p.63]

Martyn is very good at what he does: the record radiates maturity, technical chops and a cool, sometimes poignant emotionality. [Jun 2014, p.62]

Gengras's sublime drones--layers and layers of modular synth--evoke the spectacle and tragic history of his native California's wilderness. [Jun 2014, p.62]