Funky, funny, stately, strange, soulful and sensual, Floreat is a unique and unequivocal triumph. [Oct 2011, p.83]

There's a haunted, frequently unhinged quality to its songs and performances. [Nov 2014, p.83]

His joyous fourth album proper leaves behind the folksy stylings of his earlier solo work and instead builds on 2018's glitter-strewn Karma For Cheap. [Mar 2021, p.39]

Her striking debut--recorded in 10 days and originally self-released on her own label--brims with as much honest emotion as it does uncalculated cool. [Jan 2017, p.23]

In returning to their foundational style, Tunng sound as full of surprise and mystery as ever. [Jan 2025, p.41]

Articulate, emotional and primed for the dancefloor. [Jan 2014, p.71]

These 33 minutes are some of Malkmus' finest work; one avenue, then, has now been explored and staked out, but remains pleasingly wild. [Apr 2019, p.35]

There's very little quite like it, and it's much wilder than it first seems. [Mar 2014, p.77]

The dozen tunes here are sumptuous slices of bliss-pop with an art-punk edge. [Mar 2009, p.78]

This tasteful mix of analogue keys and distorted drum machines is precisely what we've come to expect from Pritchard. It's when he wanders off-piste with Bibio, Thom Yorke and Linda Perhacs that the record comes alive, and these instrumental tracks then play a vital supporting role. [Jun 2016, p.80]

In both rhythm and spirit, Yowzers is slippery and free. Yet where the record coalesces into songs, it tends to speak the raw, direct language of soul music and the blues. [Aug 2025, p.36]

On Robert Burns' "Song Composed In August," the voices lend beautifully in a seasonal (temporary?) celebration of love. [Sep 2021, p.33]

Generally excellent, sporadically sublime. [Aug 2019, p.39]

Their inimitable fury and drive is intact. [Sep 2019, p.18]

These are recorded almost as demos, in a more intimate and lo-fi way than usual, bringing him even closer in sound as well as spirit to the likes of Townes Van Zandt and Ron Sexsmith. [Dec 2021, p.33]

The greatest pleasure of its four eloquent tracks comes from the way the duo hint at narrative, delicately suturing disparate sounds to build a complex electro-acoustic suite. [Oct 2025, p.29]

The album has its fair share of filler.... But, at its best, World Peace feels like a perfect penultimate episode in the last season of a beloved TV series. [Aug 2014, p.66]

Wilful, perhaps, but also a hugely inventive joy. [Aug 2012, p.77]

It’s all impossibly good, from the walloping riff that drives opener “Reason To Hide” through hardcore thrasher “La Plage”, the grunge-pop of “Here It Comes” and the jazz-dub title track, right up to the steadily building whirlwind of ominous closer “Gunboats”. [Aug 2024, p.39]

There are moments of redemption as songs such as "On Deronda Road" and Weightless" celebrate life's capacity for renewal. But make no mistake: this is a dark record for dark times. [Nov 2019, p.25]

These songs covey a visceral dread through crashing guitars and her unsettling matter-of-fact twang evokes the no-escape confinement of a volatile relationship. [Nov 2017, p.32]

A return to form, if not a career-redefining masterpiece. [Jul 2005, p.107]

Phantom Radio feels like a real upping of the game. [Nov 2014, p.70]

Love's Holiday still kicks against the pricks, particularly on raging single "Icy White & Crystalline", but the primary themes here seem to be love and loss. [Sep 2023, p.34]

Combine[s] utterly maddening complexity with candyfloss pop hooks. [Jun 2007, p.108]

He sounds more like a loner--intense, precise, impervious to fashion--than ever. [Jul 2007, p.102]

Blur have released three compilation albums, but none of them point up the band's engagingly contrary creativity and elastic pop nous quite like these two discs.

The repressive weight of the production creates a micro-climate that's compelling to move through. [Feb 2015, p.83]