It's pervaded by numbness, claustrophobia, pain intensified to the point of dissociation. [Jun 2012, p.49]

It works enough to be a strangely enjoyable and admirable record. [Jun 2012, p.48]

It's as arch, infuriating and entertaining as the duo's name would lead you to expect. [Jun 2012, p.46]

It's as timeless in its own small way as the Chicago canon that inspired it. [Jun 2012, p.46]

There's something enchantingly nostalgic about Awe Natural. [May 2012, p.74]

The energy is impressive and it's hard to find technical fault but the stagnation is undeniable. [May 2012, p.73]

The first half is far more intriguing. [May 2012, p.72]

Civilization's simplicity is deceptive: not every producer can take such basic elements and fashion somethings so thrillingly menacing. [May 2012, p.72]

Porras here maps a liminal space with a fine balance of spontaneity and judgement, building towards a revelation which occurs--so as to preserve the mystery--just out of view. [May 2012, p.70]

The Footwork moves might be hard to master, nut there's every chance your brain will o a jig to this. [May 2012, p.66]

The unit sound tight and integrated. [May 2012, p.62]

The second set might not be as powerful as its predecessor, but the milieu it conjures is still engrossingly evocative. [May 2012, p.61]

Perlas is debonair, contemporary and redolent of that old seductive charge. [Mya 2012, p.58]

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

It's doubtful that the official soundtrack for Dredd will be anything as satisfying as this atmospheric homage to the mean streets of the future. [May 2012, p.56]

An interesting example of a performer getting more experimental and simultaneously more studio-savvy, Chenaux has produced his best work yet. [Mar 2012, p.51]

His work manages to square Cecil Taylor with Ralph Vaughan Williams. [Feb 2012, p.72]

Wong knows that to build up this depth of texture he has to restrict the harmonic content, but endless repetition of pentatonic scales played very fast by 100 Fender Tele-wielding Wong doppelgangers loses it lustre as a listening experience some considerable time before the 16th track reaches its conclusion. [Feb 2012, p.68]

It is an utterly twisted delight. [Feb 2012, p.68]

Iradelphic often feels lost in a borrowed soundworld. [Apr 2012, p.68]

Some handle the group's distorted guitars with a squeamishly light touch in the pursuit of sleek House and Techno. [Apr 2012, p.68]

Transistor Rhythm is functional and stylistically up to date yet modestly unique. [Apr 2012, p.68]

It evokes so many emotions in a single track, and wrestling with its bittersweetness affects you in the gut. [Apr 2012, p.67]

They actually have something fresh to express. [Apr 2012, p.62]

Urstan can be seen as a remedial effort. [Apr 2012, p.58]

It all adds up to a queasy--but pleasurable--kind of time-travel sickness. [Mar 2012, p.67]

Sweet Heart Sweet Light isn't the best thing to bear the Spiritualized name but when Pierce aims for epic emotion as on "Get What You Want," his affectingly plaintive vocal sandwiched between Visconti strings and buzzing organ, the continued potency of his vision is evident. [Mar 2012, p.65]

Disappears present an album that sounds pretty confident in its pursuit of forward motion yet distractingly familiar. [Mar 2012, p.65]