A brash and confident rebirth. [Dec 2020, p.31]

The malevolent, Stooges-and-Suicide-styled noise of their definitive Blood Red River is less apparent, but attitudinal chops and unpredictability abound. [Sep 2021, p.33]

An album of soaring pastoral symphonies, grand emotional vistas, knowing nostalgia and surreal wordplay. [Mar 2022, p.35]

Sa Cities puts more weight on mood than on song, though, which means Shapiro, always an elusive singer, sometimes gets lost among all the synths. [Mar 2022, p.35]

It absolutely stands on its own merits, however, as an album replete with the sinister strangeness and bleary whimsy which has characterised Laibach’s best work. [Jun 2022, p.29]

A brave, thoroughly welcome comeback. [Dec 2022, p.28]

September November is undeniably a vital, relevant 21st-century artefact. [Apr 2023, p.22]

The purposeful "Fast Asleep" or swirling "Dirtmouth" - featuring labelmate/saxophonist James Brandon Lewis - might loosely suit Parker's Chicago collective too. But "Solanin" with Brandee Younger, boasts a lush Cinematic Orchestra elegance, while Daedalus lends "(If You Don't Leave) The City Will Kill You" an irresistibly propulsive energy. [Sep 2023, p.27]

Selvutsletter is a shapeless sprawl in places but covers an impressive range. [Nov 2023, p.31]

Standouts such as "Rocks Of Time" and "Next One, Maybe" have all the depth, richness and candour that Veirs' admirers have come to expect. [Dec 2023, p.36]

Mixes have the tracks - stacked guitars and vocals, bustling basslines, played and programmed drums - hurtling along as if crammed into a tunnel. [Mar 2024, p.25]

Thematically and musically, this is classic Hawkwind –epic space-rock with science-fiction lyrics –resulting in a double album crammed with songs like “The Tracker” or “Traveller Of Time And Space” that could have been written at any time since 1970 and therefore fit seamlessly into one of rock’s great canons. [May 2024, p.34]

His gruff grumble suits the narrator’s weary stoicism, and not for the last time on this album, those gnarled fingers wring flamenco flavoured miracles from the fretboard of that battered, antique Martin. [Jun 2024, p.28]

Taking the Rio Grande as a confluence point between Mexico and the American Southwest, it reflects TexiCali’s exuberant sense of musical inclusivity. [Jul 2024, p.34]

Cannell makes good on the promise in that music, interfacing with Bingen in convincing ways, her bass recorder and harp improvs. Warped by delay, both are paced and wild, chimeric and oneiric. [Dec 2024, p.33]

A further example of his fluency in the ancient, internationally shared languages of wonder and imagining. [Apr 2025, p.36]

The wistful allure of the heady old days is strong as he ponders the sacred but mostly the profane alongside a fiery Lisa O'Neill on "Poca Mahoney's". But he also finds slapdash inspiration on his doorstep in bucolic Normandy. [Jun 2025, p.31]

Here he's in lo-fi mode, growling in a soft tenor voice over joyously jagged acoustic guitar backing. [Jul 2025, p.33]

Remembering Now is the deeply heartening sound of an artist recognising himself. [Jul 2025, p.34]

The album is alive with everything that has always made him great. [Oct 2025, p.36]

Some of the best moments involve lesser-known artists, such as The Mad Lads tearing through "Don't Have To Shop Around" and Wendy Rene Delivering a superlatively funky "Bar-B-Q". [Sep 2025, p.50]

It all sounds like prime Jennings, all twinkling swagger on such upbeat tracks as "After The Ball", and bruised pride on the exquisite ballads. [Nov 2025, p.47]

Love And Fortune is a reckoning with loss - of relationships, homes, a younger, more carefree version of herself - but one that does not wholly relinquish Donnelly's playful side. [Jan 2026, p.29]

It's not hard to work out that these two albums really do function as a double, and certainly represent the group's most complete work to date. [combined review of both discs; Feb 2004, p. 68]

Tip Of The Sphere represents McCombs' practised skill as a shaper of his own world, with pride in his craft, a deep respect for tradition and the drive to refresh it via his own, idiosyncratic iteration. [Mar 2019, p.18]

This is more than mere virtuoso performance. [Aug 2006, p.90]

Still short on humanity, true, but possessed with an alien sort of beauty. [Oct 2009, p.98]

It's a solid second-tier AC/DC record. ... And the best individual songs are well worthy of the AC/DC marque. [Jan 2021, p.20]