The sound overall mostly evokes the primordial, punky, pre-grunge Lemonheads, leavened now as then by Dando's insuppressible pop sense. [Dec 2025, p.33]

Singer Joe Casey tacks flattened vocals to songs that move with a bristling crawl and occasionally explode into repressed fury. [Nov 2016, p.35]

Despite the sombre circumstances, J.T. is a celebratory affair, the elder man bringing a hymnal ruggedness "Far Away In Another Town" and a hearty hoedown spirit to "I Don't Care." [Feb 2021, p.27]

Inarticulate, perhaps, but indubitably exciting. [Oct 2013, p.72]

While "Incense At Abu Ghraib" has a horror auteur's knack for intimidation, a shrill whistle barely masking the sound of feet on metal stairs. It's masterful, though it'll leave you feeling like a speck of gravel in self-destructing world. [Nov 2013, p.72]

His most classically minded, complementing the film's setting with its own opulent old=world beauty. [Apr 2018, p.27]

Watershed feels like a declaration of independence. [Feb 2008, p.87]

True, every song here is virtually identical, but at least it's a great song. [Apr 2008, p.94]

The new LP gradually casts a powerful spell. [Aug 2008, p.106]

Crackles with a wisecracking energy. [Aug 2020, p.36]

It’s E’s lyrics that are the true, bitter joy of this record, sacrificing nothing of their wit in pursuit of heartbreaking, heartbroken directness.

The results are impressive: the requisite 1960s garage cover sits happily alongside the band's traditional urgency, and their newfound classicism. [Nov 2009, p.99]

The very wonderful Eyeland finds them poised between the familiar and the less so. [Jul 2016, p.75]

Johanna Warren’s sixth solo record is as masterful as it is enchanting. [Oct 2022, p.36]

The results are dark, dangerous and utterly compelling. [Mar 2011, p.94]

Nervy and noisy, Sixth House ranks alongside their best albums. [Aug 2018, p.33]

It's a sometime magnificent beast of superior psychedelia. [Jul 2013, p.76]

Play loud, and be transported. [Jan 2021, p.32]

It's a great combustible mix, a whirlwind of new sounds caught by the tail, diced and dissected and in permanent hectic propulsion. [Sep 2011, p.91]

It's a colourful, cartoonish world they inhabit, but its trippy qualities are packed with ambitious detail and worthy of serious attention. [Sep 2013, p.94]

Frivolous fun, if that's allowed. [Oct 2012, p.86]

An obsessively dark record. [Oct 2012, p.79]

Arbouretum have often looked from a distance kike a vehicle for their frontman. Ostensibly Dave Heumann's first solo album, Her In the Deep more or less confirms as much. [Nov 2015, p.77]

Bold. ... But Ism is finest when at its funkiest. [Jan 2020, p.28]

Stylish and substantial, it's a deft masterpastiche that dissolves history for its own entertainment. [Oct 2006, p.114]

The results are as striking and challenging as you'd expect. [May 2026, p.35]

The Endless Not sees the whirring tape-loopsof old replaced by iMacs, but not at the expense of sheer abrasiveness. [May 2007, p.113]

It turns out that this consistently astonishing writer chronicles happiness as astutely as he evokes its opposite. [Sep 2010, p.92]