The real ace up their sleeves is their exquisite harmonies. [Dec 2012, p.77]

A high-flying triumph. [Mar 2017, p.26]

There is a hint of Nashville in the production, a dash of steel guitar, but the main symptom is the clarity of the sound. It dares to be understated, pushing Real Estate's artful ambivalence into the light. [Feb 2024, p.35]

Each [track] is assembled like an audio drama, starting with static noises and amusing spoken-word fragments before frequent musical plot changes. [Aug 2015, p.77]

In lyric form and musical scale, it was epic.... The discs of "companion audio," often short on revelation, here reveal a moment of sheer anomaly. 10 Ribs & All/Carrot Pod Pod is whatever that title may mean, everything the LP is not: a tender piano piece. [Sep 2015, p.93]

Fairly conventional, but done with plenty of panache and alluring bad-girl swagger. [Sep 2016, p.69]

Josh Pearson has gone there so we don't have to--we should be grateful he's returned to tell the tale. [Apr 2011, p.72]

A cycle of slushy but well-written R&B ballads which pay tribute to his soul heroes. [Feb 2011, p.84]

Their The Fool traces out similar shapes as east coast cousins Effi Briest: dreamy, faintly pagan psychedelia, their tumbling vocal harmonies, undercut by inexorable, tidal bass. Their softly-softly approach does breed some earworms, though. [Dec 2010, p.104]

An album of rapid-fire drums, throbbing bass and colossal riffs that nod, well, headbang, back heavily to the glory days of thrash metal. [Oct 2019, p.29]

With Spoils, Alasdair Roberts has delivered his finest work to date. [May 2009, p.95]

A lush and ambitious piece of progressive pop music. [Sep 2017, p.38]

The Gris Gris are a challenging, intense proposition. [Jan 2006, p.113]

Ceremony feels appealingly gigantic. [Jul 2013, p.83]

Uncharacteristic moves brings an intriguing dimension to Berninger's inward-peering persona. [Jul 2025, p.26]

The melodic facility and phrasing are as elegant as we have come to expect. [Sep 2002, p.118]

The Youth sound rejuvenated. [Jul 2004, p.108]

Her simple, repeitious music is predominantly listless and washed out. [Jun 2003, p.102]

Spewing more words per inch than an IRS vault, the effect is like primal scream therapy set to incidental music. [Oct 2002, p.101]

Overall, it's rather slight and inevitably rough around the edges.... But there's still considerable entertainment to be had from Segall's urgent renditions of "Cat Black: and "Buick Mackane" while his take on "The Slider" and "20 Century Boy" are magnificent reboots. [Feb 2016, p.94]

Horse Feathers have found their way to a much richer, more confident sound, marrying Southern soul grooves and rough-hewn Americana to Paul Simon eloquence. [Jul 2018, p.28]

The set charms and thrills. [May 2025, p.29]

Besides the odd burst of surf guitar and filigree finger-picking, the basic musical parameters remain unchanged. [May 2011, p.85]

She's rarely sounded more alive. [Jun 2007, p.92]

Derek Miller's flashy axemanship and Alexis Krauss' swoon are compromised by sanitized production. [Mar 2012, p.98]

The best of Ride Me Back Home feels as much a companion to [2018 My Way] as to its predecessors in Nelson's trilogy of reckoning--there's a certain Sinatra-esque conspiratorial intimacy. [Aug 2019, p.37]

Deerhoof are close to knocking the Flaming Lips off their exalted perch. [Feb 2011, p.82]

Recall[s] the tin-pot vigour and gutsy emotional bite of... Guided By Voices. [Mar 2006, p.94]