An absorbing listen. [Mar 2005, p.102]

Their jangly, soulful, melodic take on punk-pop still has freshness and urgency. [Nov 2015, p.80]

They have produced a cohesive work that marries gauzy dreampop with more robust indie-rock. [Dec 2012, p.77]

In places it has a feel of soundtrack work, strangely restrained for such club fiends, but their grasp of pensive, unsettling dynamics is firm. [Jan 2013, p.80]

By combining focused layers and distinctive styles, The Coathangers have crafted their best record yet. [Apr 2019, p.26]

If anything, it can feel a little too smoothed out, and some more grit in the production wouldn't go astray. [Apr 2016, p.71]

[The Hexadic System] sounds complicated, but primarily this is a guitar record. [Mar 2015, p.81]

It’s an album packed with leftfield ideas and off-kilter lyrical narratives seemingly fashioned in fever dreams. [Aug 2021, p.24]

It’s rarely coherent and not always pretty, but the most effective therapy rarely is. [Oct 2022, p.26]

Quality levels are high, with Cate Le Bon's sleek Krautpop chanson "Gallant Foxes" and Claire Tchaikowski's aqueous ambi-folk ballad "That Fever" helping to excuse a small handful of underpowered, over-polished numbers. [Mar 2014, p.73]

There's a passion and naturalism to these songs that make them worthy of the hubbub. [Apr 2012, p.75]

The music is mid-paced pummel of snarling electronic bass and beats through which Liam Howlett's nutty synths occasionally sail like a haunted bumper car. [May 2015, p.78]

Pramuk takes listeners on a rich inner-space odyssey. [Aug 2025, p.37]

As a rule, the more breakneck the pace of these instrumentals, the less effective they are. [Nov 2003, p.107]

It's stuffed with Staxy beats, clicking bass and Hi-Life bounce. [Jun 2015, p.81]

He's touted as a songwriter's songwriter in Music City, of all places, and the twangy highlights of this album ring true to that accolade. [Sep 2018, p.32]

It's all gracefully wrought. [Jul 2014, p.73]

Her self-produced Domino debut is an alluring tale of heartbreak and romance, framed by murky electro ballads and scuffed synthwave. [Sep 2015, p.75]

Gulp's debut Season Sun is spooked set of crepuscular pop, a Moogie wonderland furnished with some very good songs. [Aug 2014, p.73]

Though nothing here quite matches the melodic and emotional force of their first-album anthem "The Mother We Share," the quality threshold is high throughout. [Oct 2015, p.73]

It's indie rock like Mum used to make, and comfortingly invigorating as such. [Jul 2023, p.23]

Apart from the odd off-kilter minor key melody, they sound anything but bereft as Bagg's dreamy soprano, layers of melodic synths and soaring strings cast a dramatically romantic sheen over their pain. [Feb 2019, p.30]

A welcome return. [Jan 2013, p.81]

A mature album that's abrasive but not "freaky" or "weird", that enjoys its moments of harmony when it finds them, and is as serious-minded as the times demand. [Apr 2012, p.76]

The four-piece deliver their familiar brand of Cali power-pop, at once glossy and heart-on-sleeve. [Jun 2020, p.37]

There's no contrivance or compromise to be found here. [Sep 2020, p.36]

This is a marvellous collection of hooky acid rock that nods to UK '80s indie as well as '70s classic rock. [Mar 2024, p.32]

Yoshimi's ebullience is inescapable on Kila Kila Kila, from the gymnastic drumming to her ecstatic, Bjorkesian yelps. [Apr 2004, p.106]