It's rich in moods and textures, variously lean and percussive, euphoric, foreboding and melodically vibrant. [Jun 2025, p.31]

An album that is as genuinely moving as it is pulsing and hypnotic. [Jul 2025, p.37]

They may not go out with a bang on this occasion, but Cheap trick's capacity to surprise prevails. [Dec 2025, p.28]

Stark, often stunning. [Dec 2006, p.121]

This is a corporeal and cacophonic record, but all ear-bleeding mayhem it isn't. ... Lightning Bolt continue to spark. [Nov 2019, p.28]

Rich with amped-up fiddles, mandolins, accordions and harmonies, it's vibrant, hook-laden and addictive. [Aug 2015, p.77]

Black gothic grandeur, but with a beige, biscuit-coloured centre. [Oct 2013, p.72]

The second full-length album is richly textured and exceedingly complex in its arrangements. [Apr 2012, p.75]

Engaging New Zealanders The Beths masterfully marry muscle and vulnerability here. [Sep 2025, p.28]

It's beautifully eerie. [Oct 2018, p.30]

Tennessee Pusher is comfortably up to standard, the demented Dylan pastiche, 'Alabama High-Test' a particular highlight. [Oct 2008, p.101]

The two hours and four tracks of Love In Detroit capture the mood and excitement of a Fela show during this second phase of his career. [Jun 2012, p.93]

Long In The Tooth, his first full set of secular studio originals since 2005's The Real Deal, has it share [of gems]. [Sep 2014, p.70]

The buoyant beats of his debut seem well-judged to invite a wiggle whether your "booty" is on the dancefloor or wearing a groove into you favorite armchair. [May 2008, p.94]

He pulls it off in style. [Apr 2009, p.91]

Royal Trux remain unique, one of a kind: still going wrong like a hydrogen bomb.[Mar 2019, p.36]

It's a fine country record refracted through a DIY folk-rock lens. [Feb 2021, p.30]

Welch delivers clunky self-help lines wrapped in elemental metaphors. [Jul 2015, p.76]

As ever, he showcases a poetic turn of phrase and hopscotches across a dizzying array of styles. [May 2016, p.69]

The familiar tropes of nomadic wrangler life are present--trusty steed, blood-red sunsets--but, refreshingly, the masculine cliches are not. Instead, the country-rocker concentrates on intimacy, tenderness and ambiguity. [May 2019, p.33]

[Working with four young producers] isn't necessarily an ideal recipe for coherence, but [Giles] Martin--the producer of the music for Love, Circue du Soleil's Beatles show, and for the Rock Band video game--keeps it under control.... with each song treated as an individual entity and allocated its own musical resources. [Nov 2013, p.64]

Idealism is essentially a retread, but a superior retread with subtle character definition. [Jun 2007, p.97]

A fair amount of cosmic fannying involved, but this is framed by some cracking songwriting. [Jul 2012, p.79]

Generally, Dumb Flesh is more gleaming and monolithic than ever. [Jun 2015, p.71]

An engaging thing it is too. [Apr 2020, p.28]

As the album goes on, the songs gets richer and stranger. [May 2020, p.29]

A worthy addition to a glorious canon. [Jun 2021, p.24]

While Pigs x7 couldn't get much heavier, they sound noticeably angrier on this follow-up to 2020's Viscerals, adding lyrical themes of self-loathing and misanthropy into the mix. [Mar 2023, p.32]