It's impressive... but it will be interesting to see whether his undoubted talent will flourish beyond such a conceit. [Sep 2006, p.83]

[A] rich and understated debut brimming with wisdom and heart. [Nov 2015, p.79]

Songs Of Resistance throbs with urgency. [Oct 2018, p.32]

The sound, constructed with The very best's Johan Karlberg, is spare, clean and spry, a gratifyingly novel fit for Taylor as she dissects Slow Club's split and raw romantic wounds--a heady emotional brew of pain, thwarted lust and giddy pride. [May 2019, p.32]

None of the best tracks here would have sounded out of place on Old 97s' mid-'90s classics "wreck Your Life" and "Too Far To Care." This consistency feels, by now, like confirmation of the purity of Old 97s' original vision. [Oct 2020, p.34]

Vivid, diverse and faintly trippy. [Nov 2006, p.99]

Nootropics is a slow burn that lingers long. [May 2012, p.78]

Certainly worth investigation. [Jun 2005, p.102]

Are You Alone? hints at a Blue Nile-like melancholy beauty; otherwise the album could be prescribed as a treatment for insomnia. [Dec 2015, p.74]

If A Different Ship was the soundtrack to a road trip, the new record is designed for a summer afternoon. [Dec 2015, p.73]

Attempts to blend leftfield electronica, Broadway balladeering and voguish trap beats are technically impressive but stretch his minimal melodies to [the] breaking point. [Apr 2019, p.26]

A brilliant album. [Aug 2012, p.80]

It is the sound of a sweet soul contemplating deliverance; as mellow and fierce and fearful as that.

It is a more energetic, and in places darker, record than its predecessor. [Apr 2015, p.82]

It's all held together by the band's well-honed knack for a screwy groove. [Apr 2019, p.39]

It's a big, satisfying holistic record modelled with great finesse, mixing dread with Technicolor synth dazzlement and operating on a newly ambitious scale. [Dec 2020, p.25]

Each song plays like a breath exhaled. Steve Shelley's production, too, is wonderfully sympathetic. [May 2023, p.36]

The LP opens with “My Golden Years”, a delectable mélange of Harrisonian 12-string riffs, Wilsonian harmonies and layer-cake hooks, and reaches its apex with the glorious Beach Boys homage “In The Eyes Of The Girl”, with Sean Ono Lennon co-producing and playing bass. [Jun 2024, p.35]

This handsome debut bristles with ideas that could lead to some truly remarkable music later on. [Mar 2012, p.89]

Some tastefully lightweight, pleasantly inessential filler ultimately make Fuse a minor late-career coda. [Jun 2023, p.26]

An astonishing return, up there with their best records to date. [Feb 2021, p.18]

Canada's Quin twins fairly blaze through The Con's 14 compact, supercharged tracks. [Oct 2007, p.109]

Performance is expertly weighted between great hooks and loose, Southern-styled jams that dare you to shake a leg. [Sep 2018, p.39]

Parenthood proves just another phase in Maximo Park's stubborn stand for empathy and learning through rock'n'roll. [Apr 2021, p.32]

The real standouts are "Daddy's Little Girl," in which M Ward puts her inside the head of Frank Sinatra, and the Jack Pendarvis-Andrew Bird collaboration "We Can't Have Have Things."

It's a scuzzy Swans-like behemoth. [Oct 2014, p.77]

A small-hours gem. [Jun 2006, p.100]

This third album is their richest and strongest to date. [Jun 2024, p.33]