A predominantly female choir features throughout, boosting Taylor's crises of confidence on "Focus Is Power" and "What Now" into communal rallying cries. But there is fun here too. [May 2025, p.39]

Wexler delivers an alluring lugubrious set that views Fairport Convention, the Canterbury scene and Simon & Garfunkel through a glass darkly. [May 2012, p.84]

It's another perfectly good Ty Segall album, full of perfectly good Ty Segall songs. [Nov 2021, p.32]

Flutter[s] between commune jazz, zen folk and straightforward hippy rock. [Apr 2004, p.106]

The ornate multitracked chorales retain a heady intensity. [Sep 2015, p.73]

At times, it's redolent in scope of Paul Weller's 21 Dreams. [Dec 2015, p.78]

With Orange his style cuts loose and shifts around, relaxing into large, at time echoey spaces while recalling '70s Bowie and Lenon and The Verlaines, though not entirely forsaking jangle. [May 2026, p.37]

A different male duetting partner graces each track, with outstanding contributions from Jackson Browne and Willie Nelson among others. Yet all take a back seat tot he preternatural clarity of Collins' own soprano voice. [Nov 2015, p.73]

These four numbered tracks fall closer to dance music, although Föllakzoid's hallmarks - a lysergic dreaminess, tethered by a constant, hypnotic propulsion - remains intact. [Nov 2023, p.28]

Only the too-obvious "Lady Liberty stumbles, but even that song is redeemed by a road-hardened band that adds a twangy stateliness to Farrar's outrage. [Apr 2019, p.36]

[An] unassumingly seductive set. [Apr 2015, p.80]

There are overdubs, Auto-Tune and, most conspicuously of all, songs have been overlaid with Animal sounds. [Jul 2016, p.68]

The music remains a potent mix of stuttering party anthems and post-Biggie street sermons. [Feb 2002, p.114]

In the same jolie-laide class as Red Krayola and Pere Ubu at their most ungainly, its ugliness may be a new form of beauty. [Oct 2016, p.37]

Adrian Thaws is another decent entry in the latterday Trickypedia, rolling along on circular bluesfunk grooves and furtive whisper-croak boy-girl vocals. [Oct 2014, p.79]

Goldblum knows his limitations and never sounds out of his depth. ... Good stuff. [Dec 2018, p.25]

The Haunted Man she's exorcised some of those ghosts and gone some way to becoming her own woman. [Nov 2012, p.70]

Their latest dismantles the genre boundaries often used to pen them in. [Dec 2015, p.79]

2013's Delta Machine saw Ben Hiller help them access their mid-life pain in dark post-dubstep. This stint with James Ford, though, has effected a more overt compromise. [Apr 2017, p.26]

A collection of unabashedly hooky '80s-informed rock songs. [Mar 2019, p.30]

Going Places is a felicitous reversion to type, full of mature and nuanced songcraft. [Sep 2022, p.30]

It's a record packed with earworms and a deliciously deadpan charm. [Mar 2013, p.79]

12 pummeling songs of Black Flag-like thump, laced with bleak humour. [Mar 2013, p.76]

As Polica, they go some way to forging their own--snare rim snaps and menacing funk bass constantly chasing with Casselle's Auto-Tuned--but endearingly vulnerable. [May 2012, p.79]

Though her songs deliver a sugar rush and some soar like helium balloons, they're anything but insubstantial. [Sep 2025, p.31]

Nadler's richly layered vocals are especially enthralling whenever she applies her featherlight delivery to ideas and images that subvert her music's surface appearance of serentiy. [Sep 2025, p.33]

What could be esoteric electronica is lifted by Davis' creamy, often harmonised baritone voice. [Sep 2015, p.72]

A bleakly beautiful record that smuggles moments of elation into its ambient dread. [May 2023, p.28]