It can take its place alongside Live At Leeds, Rock Of Ages and Wilco's more recent Kicking Television as a live classic. [Nov 2006, p.104]

This set is a good primer for Cooder’s soundtrack work.

It's a telling indication of the degree of daring and sophistication at hand that artistic gestures which might have seemed contrived or ill-conceived in other contexts--like say, transforming Nirvana's "In Bloom" into a majestic country-souul ballad worthy of Charley Pride-yield some of the most startling results. [May 2016, p.63]

A mouth-watering feast of beats and grooves... as welcome as anything he's done. [Apr 2005, p.100]

This companion volume of archives gives us an opportunity to hear the roads not taken, the hesitations, to feel the jeopardy at each artistic crossroads and experience the risk and wonder of the journey anew. Across seven hours, six discs and 98 tracks, this is an astonishing bounty. [Nov 2024, p.44]

Copper Blue combined Hüsker Dü's passionate intensity with a new, steely pop resolve.

Hoodoo is spellbinding stuff, a new high mark in a delightful late-career renaissance. [Oct 2013, p.64]

It's a extended mediation on the expat experience, with yearningly hymnal renditions. [May 2021, p.27]

These songs balance the regrets with the triumphs, which lends songs like the title track and “My Hidden Heart” a playfulness as well as an immense poignancy. [Oct 2022, p.33]

Mercury Rev's power is undiminished. While never resorting to crude hooks, they build melodies to peaks of graceful intensity. [Album of the Month, Jan 2005, p.114]

A dazzling set that even outstrips 2020’s Source, with the bearing of a modern classic. [Oct 2024, p.34]

An album of incredible acoustic maximalism and conspiratorially whispered melodrama - enjoys the theatrics of its acidity. [May 2026, p.33]

The group confidently flits between low-key funk, lush symphonic Philly soul and the more punchy post-Motown dance grooves of Chairman Of The Board, the constant being Rowland's powerfully assured vocal delivery of his mea culpa confessionals. [Aug 2023, p.28]

This duo's songs are genetic pop mutations, scampering out of control. [Apr 2013, p.73]

A dazzling return. [Apr 2020, p.30]

A tightly visionary work addressing the isolation and mutilation of World War I soldiers; if it’s unforgiving and unflinching in focus, that’s needed, to give voice to such suffering. [Oct 2022, p.29]

Lyrically and vocally, Houck is as witty and insightful as the come, with that cacked voice making everything sound sacred or profound. [Mar 2024, p.33]

It's a fabulous collection. [Mar 2023, p.36]

Beautiful, weird and wasted, Songs For Judy never lets us forget it. [Jan 2019, p.28]

It's comforting and surprising, full of trad sounds electrified by the off-kilter vision of an artist whose recognition as one of Americana's finest voices is long overdue. [Feb 2016, p.67]

Bowie’s Berlin is more about a state of mind, a population and its thinking than an actual place. Brian Eno and his intellectual playfulness; Robert Fripp’s alien guitar; Tony Visconti’s embrace of meaningful technology. Between them they gave Bowie the materials to build a city larger and more magnificent than anywhere you could hope to find on a map. [Nov 2017, p.44]

In many ways, it’s everything you could want in a Spiritualized album. [Mar 2022, p.22]

The clutch of pre-album demos on LP3 of the boxset reveal how tightly plotted her vignettes were before The Breeders even entered the studio.... The post-Last Splash EPs are manna from heaven for college rock connoisseurs.... The only black mark against LSXX is that the brighter, re-recorded single versions of “Divine Hammer” and “Saints” serve to make the album originals sound a little underpowered.

It's a great illustration of how the trio are even more than the sum of their considerable parts. [Jun 2023, p.25]

There's an urgency to The Leaf Library's latest that's unlike anything we've heard from them before. [May 2026, p.33]

Dury seems to have found a tone and groove that he's both relishing and flourishing in. [Apr 2020, p.27]

Highlights--there are many. ... Masterful. [Jul 2018, p.28]

Her best in two decades. [Dec 2003, p.120]