Ferraro pulls off the trick of sounding cheap and luxurious all at once. [Feb 2013, p.73]

It's a work of elegant simplicity--a suite of wistful and slightly breathless songs set to dreamy tropical guitar and muted lo-fi beats. [May 2019, p.23]

The likes of "No Sun To Burn" (for brass) or the nine0minute title track, will pull on the listener's heartstrings at least as much as it endorses the composer's process. [Feb 2024, p.31]

Freed from Torquil Campbell's mannered indie melodrama, she gives full rein to her inner country girl. [Jan 2010, p. 121]

What felt like daydream ideas in maturation then have been shaped into trly rounded songs now.[ Jul 2018, p.30]

The overall effect is both dark and playful. [May 2014, p.74]

Fall[s] somewhere between Talk Talk and the Bunnymen. [Sep 2004, p.98]

Thomas lurches from surrealist poetry to impressionistic short stories, like a hybrid of Captain Beefheart and Ernest Hemingway. [Jul 2019, p.33]

Wells adds waves of beauty, and flurries of click-track neurosis to Moffat's dispatches from the fringes of self-disgust. [Jun 2011, p.91]

The band achieve an impressive impact with a wide dynamic range. [Jun 2003, p.109]

This terrific album casts its net wider though: as well as Dinosaur fans, this will appeal to admirers of T. Rex, Thin Lizzy, Reigning Sound ad Alex Chilton, too. [May 2010, p.108]

The Trackless Woods is one of those wonderful records that reveals more if itself with each successive play. [Sep 2015, p.74]

Calling this Wells' pop album does a disservice to its cheerfully experimental tone. [Aug 2014, p.76]

With the band showing no loss of force or focus, the latest is another essential if discomfiting listen. [Nov 2024, p.36]

The likes of “D&T”, “Alice” and the cheekily titled “A Gaslight Anthem” are destined to inspire sessions of air-punching by anyone who still believes a life might be saved by three chords, the truth and a glass of the good stuff. [Nov 2024, p.37]

This is the band at their most hypnotically funky, all skeletal arrangements, whispered vocals and Jaki Liebezeit-style motorik drumming from new recruit Tony Coote. [Jun 2026, p.32]

Toth's chimeric qualities are still evident. [Oct 2008, p.113]

Saved! is powered by a sense of joyful rebirth. [Review of the Year 2023, p.29]

Their tenth LP OH (ohio) lands with some nervous expectation attached. As it turns out, it’s their best record since 2000 landmark, "Nixon."

Ramshackle, out of tune, fey and frail, not yet tightened by Trevor Horn, these tracks capture the essence of this band's particular genius. [Dec 2008, p.83]

Damned meets JAMC with a snifter of So-Cal pyscho-country-surf--on a series of hip, heady, lo-fi tunes, a large number of which seems to have the word "goth" in the title. [Aug 2009, p.95]

The songs are more direct and arrive with a harder edge [than 2012's Blood Speaks]. [May 2014, p.80]

If there's a tiny problem, it's that such sonic weirdness detracts a little from Del's entertaining rhymes. [Jun 2011, p.80]

While Baby I'm Bored is way too modest to be a masterpiece, it's far more than a join-the-dots account of a life on the rocks, and grows brighter, and more optimistic, with every play. [Apr 2003, p.102]

Resounds with the liberated feeling of an artist who not only has something to say but an audience to say it to. [May 2024, p.35]

Everything Everything continue on their quest to make intricate yet seamless electronic art pop. [Sep 2020, p.29]

At her best, and across much of Banga, Patti Smith still dramatises the distance between South Jersey and the San Francisco basilica, the street tussle between the poet and the factory girl, the devotion of the mongrels of faith for the betrayers of salvation. [Jul 2012, p.78]

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]