It's only when they change pace on "Cheated Hearts" and the equally poignant "Dudley"... that Bones makes its mark as a worthy successor to Fever. [Apr 2006, p.98]

Enchanting arrangements, glistening instrumentation, and Griffin's hypnotic vocals carry the day. [Mar 2010, p.86]

This is a rich offering crammed with songs that are heavy with atmosphere and humour, all wrapped round a voice that demands attention. [Oct 2016, p.26]

While its New Age themes may dissuade some, Hopkins affirms his genius for fashioning unparalleled landscapes from sound. [Dec 2021, p.28]

This Old Dog is an admirable exertion. [Jun 2017, p.28]

Her follow-up, produced by Mark Howard, adds country-gospel choirs and fussy arrangements to her palette, steamrolling any nuance she might bring to these characters. [Apr 2018, p.23]

There's a clear confidence in their third album. [Dec 2015, p.74]

Velociraptor! makes good on the pair's loud-mouthed claims by stripping away previous excess. [Oct 2011, p.91]

With flurries of old-time whimsy, The Beatles gone gothic and vaudevillian storytelling, it's dense and sometimes obscure. [Nov 2010, p.84]

A more sombre, focused affair [than 2015's covers album of Taylor Swift's 1989]. [Mar 2017, p.23]

The record as a whole is an energetic, infectious romp through trap, Auto-Tune, West Coast soul and warm balladry. [Feb 2016, p.78]

Their ninth album might be their best this millennium; a triangulation of mature soppiness, mitigated contentment and indelible tuneage. [Oct 2016, p.39]

These are quietly quixotic pieces, rich and poignant, possessing a stilled, slowly unfolding melancholia. [Jul 2019, p.27]

Even without the backstory or an understanding of how difficult this record was to make, …Frankenstein is a skilful portrait of what it means to feel disconnected from the joy and urgency of life.

A satisfactorily dramatic return. [May 2017, p.30]

Nash, his many voices and every credited musician on the album combine in a joyous noise you want to go on as long as one of those versions of "Caravan" Van used to do with The Caledonia Soul Orchestra. [Aug 2018, p.25]

It's when the band marry this discordance with melody that they really shine. [Nov 2021, p.35]

Impossible not to love. [Apr 2005, p.110]

It's electro adventurism aligns him with John Maus and White Rainbow,m but Nick Cave and Berlin-era Bowie hover nearby. [Dec 2011, p.79]

Too often a limited voice and over-egged arrangements strain to little effect. [Aug 2009, p.94]

The best tracks ooze a kind of drowsy melancholy. [Feb 2012, p.86]

If Drift Code can't quite match the rural psychodrama of its predecessor, it boasts its own quizzical magic. [Mar 2019, p.32]

's the urgent but effortless certainty that Matsson was born to sing these songs. [May 2010, p.108]

Some of these experimental mash-ups feel ungainly, but when their chemistry ignites, Algiers sound indestructible. [Apr 2023, p.23]

It's haunting, purgatory stuff. [May 2025, p.39]

With The Warning, they've willed themselves beyond bathos by sincerely embracing their English art-pop sensibilities. [Jun 2006, p.103]

He's captured the binary sense of outrage and fear with visceral brilliance on songs such as "twins" and "Stone Age." [Oct 2017, p.36]

Beguiling. [Oct 2005, p.107]