This Montreal master proves himself, yet again, a consummate songwriter and master of atmospherics. [Jun 2015, p.84]

Hardly the most disciplined or versatile singer, Shaver gets over on the strength of his writing. [Aug 2012, p.79]

Wonderful, Glorious sounds, throughout, overwhelmingly like an Eels album.... This consistency has to be admired as testament to the robustness of E's vision. [Mar 2013, p.74]

The real triumph of Easy Tiger is less rooted in the sound, more in the attitude. [Jul 2007, p.114]

If Segovia had gone electric, one could imagine the results might have sounded something like this. [Aug 2023, p.34]

The material is designed to showcase the principals' piano playing, and skilled engineer Mike Piersante has set up the mic'ing and mix by putting Russell's piano on one side of the stereo spectrum, Elton's on the other, making the record a particular kick under headphones. [Nov 2010, p.98]

A glistening second album that lands somewhere between the empyrean vision of Broadcast and the starry-eyed pulsating of Tame Impala. [Jun 2021, p.25]

Her newest pushes the format to its fullest form, wrapping expansive and intricate interpretations of the decade's sonic touchstones - synth washes, gated drums, pulsating beats, guitar jangle and romantic vocals - into tidy three- and four-minute packages. [Apr 2023, p.36]

Nine luminous, clean0lined songs focus on love's myriad complexities. [May 2015, p.84]

Passerby is an acoustic record of great subtlety and warmth, so much that it overcomes the chick-lit preciousness of Randell's lyrics. [Sep 2014, p.75]

Hilariously frenetic, perpetually distracted. [Jun 2005, p.116]

It's Roderick's lyrics that really grip. [Nov 2006, p.118]

Purring, pulsing and bathed in neon, this might actually be their essential release. [Aug 2018, p.35]

This is a leftfield party album bursting with personality, wonky charm and random sonic mischief. [Feb 2021, p.29]

It's weird and enticing, hypnotic and jarring. In a word: it's Chasny. [Sep 2021, p.33]

Local Valley is positive, engaged, almost rousing. [Oct 2021, p.32]

Really rather magnificent, in its way. [Jul 2002, p.107]

With a bit of self-pruning, a bit MORE risk and space in the production, he might have TRULY self-reinvented. [May 2002, p.90]

A weird and wonderful record. [Jul 2002, p.120]

It fizzes with pent-up power and singalong choruses. [Jan 2018, p.18]

Not thrilling, maybe, but pleasingly solid. [Apr 2018, p.24]

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

Their sixth album intersperses passages of barbed attack with atmosphere and nuance. [Oct 2017, p.40]

Make no mistake, the Lips have done it: three astonishing LPs in a row. [May 2006, p.94]

Adele is repeatedly cast as the heartbroken survivor. That role serves to foreground her mighty impressive vocals, but also encourage the showboating overkill that is a staple of the X Factor generation. [Feb 2011, p.79]

Lidell's vocals are alternately anguished and joyous but always supple. It's quite a ride. [May 2010, p.97]

Where the album suffers, however--especially in comparision to the Jenny Lewis record--is the absence of any real lyrical verve or personality. [Aug 2008, p.94]

They strain for transcendent, neo-religious euphoria; sometimes they get there. [Feb 2011, p.99]