Songs from the wellspring of third-album VU; a few nods toward New Order; some charming turns of phrase. And on it goes.... [Apr 2014, p.83]

Pokey LaFarge's seventh long-player echoes and expands his mastery of bygone styles. [May 2015, p.75]

Back To Yasgur’s Farm has a documentary feel that’s one of its most successful aspects.

[The album] is not so much a radical departure as a dalliance with a marginally more brooding, textural musical aesthetic. [Sep 2014, p.75]

There's an edge that's been absent in recent years. [Jul 2005, p.99]

The key moments are covers. [May 2007, p.104]

As ever, the technical chops are indisputable--but it does, with fewer brains on board, feel somehow less substantial. [Nov 2019, p.22]

Demonstrates... pastoral grace, sweetness and warmth. [Aug 2005, p.106]

This is adequate debut, but La Roux will need to move beyond brittle pastiche if they hope to reinvent such overfamiliar ingredients. [Jul 2009, p.91]

Voice and piano are to the fore, but Wasser's orchestrations pulse and ebb like living things. [July 2008, p.102]

A flexible lineup enabling The Arcs to experiment seamlessly with melody and structure. [Oct 2015, p.71]

Despite this record's twilight charms, the group may need to become more expansive if they want to head further out there. [Oct 2005, p.96]

They haven't yet shown enough thrills in righteousness to challenge gangsta's dark, easy attraction. [Nov 2002, p.129]

A record that grows on you slowly but surely. [May 2002, p.104]

An irreverent and enjoyably silly listen. [Mar 2003, p.100]

A record which transcends any scene's fleeting credibility. [Oct 2003, p.122]

In Wedding Present terms, Torino is Cinerama's Seamonsters. [Aug 2002, p.99]

Aside from the roistering music, what makes this ultimately so appealing is they way McCaughey and Wynn universalise their subject.

The key to the understated triumph of Sarah Nixey's second solo album is her recognition that there's nothing wrong with sounding like Black Box Recorder. [Jul 2011]

The Old Magic won't do his reputation any harm. [Oct 2011, p.91]

This delightful album rolls back the last 60 years. [Aug 2012, p.78]

The standout tracks here are the most melancholy and experimental. [Nov 2012, p.71]

An album crammed with adhesive melodies. [Jan 2013, p.81]

Schnauss' trademark keyboard washes are a significant feature, at times helping stimulate euphoria beneath often gauzy melancholia, elsewhere adding a soothing Pink Floyd-ish balm. [Sep 2014, p.73]

Their sound has nonetheless developed in intensity and sophistication.... Beautiful. [Mar 2015, p.83]

If these 13 tracks recorded between 1996 and the early 2000s can't match the perfect cohesion of the parent album, the collection's calling card is its diversity. [May 2015, p.93]

The spirit moves zeroes in on [the lines separating faith and hope, optimism and cynicism, and emotioanl carnage] in bare, existential terms... with the ferocity of a soul singer pushed to the edge. [Aug 2015, p.80]

A lugubrious lo-fi treat. [Sep 2015, p.69]