Her debut British release showcases a vivid and fully formed talent clearly versed in quirky, often humourous songcraft. [Nov 2007, p.125]

Booker T can still effortlessly access the pleasure principle that transcends musical trends and fleeting fashions, with an instinctive grasp of groove and momentum that speaks directly to heart, feet and head alike. [Sep 2013, p.84]

Until The Colours Run casts a spell which lingers. [Oct 2013, p.71]

By combining focused layers and distinctive styles, The Coathangers have crafted their best record yet. [Apr 2019, p.26]

A stripped-down production adds intimacy, though Hersh's voice isn't quite as strong as it once was. [Dec 2013, p.74]

Path Of Wellness proves Corin Tucker and Carrie Brownstein haven’t forgotten the empowering, life-giving qualities of rock’n’roll fun. Sleater-Kinney are turning their reunion years into a reaffirmation of the importance of support and solidarity on a private, personal level. [Aug 2021, p.30]

She relies on relatively conservative house music tropes sometimes, but the hooks never fail to cut through. [Jun 2023, p.29]

This is an album filled with earworms, with hooklines and stray phrases that burrow deep into your consciousness. [Sep 2016, p.72]

Sometimes it's grating - "The Ocean" could be a Belinda Carlisle album track - but the supremely catchy likes of first single "Hell" deserves daytime radio ubiquity. [Jan 2010, p. 131]

His debut is characterised by frantically over-driven beats, but is as soulful as it is dance-insistent. [Jul 2015, p.80]

While Efrim Menuck will never be a technically great singer, his fiery, hopeful delivery here marks a career best. [Mar 2010, p.96]

Nothing Important offers more of idiosyncratic "ritual community music," as he calls it. [Feb 2015, p.75]

The overall vibe is naturally more intimate than before. [Aug 2015, p.81]

Diligent cherry-picking makes this collection a decent illustration of their left-field charm. [Dec 2023, p.44]

Mostly the mood is dark. Kinda seductive, too. [Jun 2006, p.120]

Mostly, though, it reasserts Bishop's status as wide-ranging guitar master, gently amused by any such assumptions of grandeur. [Mar 2015, p.71]

Intense. [Feb 2016, p.78]

Jump For Joy is a panoramic, magical reverie on the sometimes hard gift of a life in American music. [Sep 2023, p.36]

New guitarist Matthew Simms has refreshed Wire's sound. [Apr 2013, p.79]

A rich, nuanced, fantastically enjoyable album that understands great music is often the product of a historical continuum rather than radical innovation, and which saves its best trick 'til last. [Aug 2015, p.82]

Working with a major label has brought a new sheen to the Ladytronic wall of sound. [Oct 2005, p.94]

A Mad & Faithful Telling is an impeccably titled album [Apr 2008, p.88]

When it works, it doses oso brillantly--but the preponderance of bog standard indie rock elsewhere is sadly less engaging. [May 2009, p.89]

Stark and poetic, with an echo of danger. [Feb 2012, p.105]

Kempner's raw honesty encompasses the droll as well as the despairing. [May 2016, p.78]

The charming meld of discordance and melody is displayed throughout, with Rønnenfelt shrieking and hissing above tar-thick bass, piano stabs and guitar. [Dec 2016, p.32]

While this second album adds a layer or two of extra accompaniment, the emotional core remains a formidably magnetic force. [Mar 2022, p.26]

As a listener, it’s equally hard not to feel the love. With Hot Chip, it now feels like the right time to commit.