Songcraft conventions - choruses, recurring riffs - are daringly absent. On repeat listens, though, the meandering strands - from the dreamy acoustica of "Two Horses" and choral harmonies on "Mary" to the Philip Glass-like horns of "Nancy Takes The Night" - begin to stick, aided by frequently arresting lyrics. [Apr 2025, p.28]

Tracks such as "My Name is Blank" capture the album's essence - a middle ground between metal and punk - on a record that barely lets up for a single second. [Oct 2022, p.25]

There are enough moments of mercurial brilliance on May Your Marry Rich to suggest that the core duo of former student buddies Ryan Hendrix and Nick Turner are finally on to something. [Apr 2014, p.71]

Understated and in, places, unfashionable. [Oct 2015, p.83]

If nothing here is quite touched by the hand of God, then maybe it's all the more engagingly human. [Apr 2005, p.104]

The lighter moments are more endearing. [Dec 2016, p.28]

Arnold sings the heart out of her own standards – “(If You Think You’re) Groovy”, “Angel Of The Morning” and a triumphant “The First Cut Is The Deepest”. No “Tin Soldier”, though. [Review of the Year 2024, p.27]

Between Two Shores might be his most compelling and imaginative amalgam of Big Pink folk-rock and Muscle Shoals R&B. [Feb 2018, p.28]

Variety is this album's strength. [Oct 2023, p.33]

At other times he falls back on elegantly vintage-clad pastichery, but then the stomping baroque pop duet of "I Gotta Limit" and the sun-dappled wistfulness of "To Live For What Once Was" prick up our ears once again. [Jan 2025, p.31]

She embeds her anxious, self-flagellating lyrics in jaunty settings that dynamically replicate garage rock, girl-group pop and doo-wop. [Mar 2017, p.30]

Here his [Vieux's] guitar melts audaciously into Khruangbin's spacey atmospherics and futuristic R&B. [Nov 2022, p.38]

There's much beauty aid the flux of recorders, messy analogue synths and wayward sax. [May 2012, p.77]

This is all about the warm, soft glow of his voice and band, mostly taped together on the studio floor. [Oct 2020, p.36]

Smith sees the fragments left behind by an old songwriting mentor - paintings, cups of coffee, the gift of her first guitar - as things to be celebrated, and the same is true of these 10 fragments of herself. [Jul 2025, p.37]

A set of lush and moody ballads boasting ripe wisdom. [Oct 2025, p.31]

The production can sound derivative, but when Younge is on inspired form. [Sep 2015, p.75]

The piano house pop of “Woman” and synth-fuelled trance of “Holiday” could have been released in 1992, but they’re no less likeable for it. They’re shot through with CM’s trademark wry cool, as is “What I Like”, wherein Sugar Bones’ laconic vocal makes a dancefloor anthem sound somehow like The Dandy Warhols gone disco. [May 2022, p.25]

Younge and his horn octet create some fine pastiche of Fela Kuti's Egypt 90 band around Allen's beats. [Aug 2023, p.23]

It’s an affirmation of their relationship and personal and creative identities in an(other) electronic-soul set with muted beats and a meditative, rather than impassioned bent, though no less righteous for that. [Jun 2022, p.29]

Their playing is more expressive as ever. Happily, the maturation of Larkin Poe's sound coincides with a step forward in songwriting. [Feb 2025, p.39]

The current lineup lacks that ritualistic Jamaican component - the nyabinghi-style conga playing of the late Pablo Gonsales and the Skatalites-influenced sax of Mike "Bammi" Rose - but there are still great moments. [Jan 2025, p.32]

Amber Papini's beautiful, whimsical vocals are what strike you first when listening to Hospitality's more than decent debut. [May 2012, p.75]

The pill is somewhat sweetened by Braids' glossy new sound, a feelgood revamp that pairs swooning electronics with upfront drum'n'bass and will do some damage at large outdoor events. [Jun 2015, p.72]

Jump Into Life feels like a vital reminder of how the expression of joy can serve as both an act of resistance and a demonstration of resilience. [Jul 2025, p.33]

Subtlety with Skynyrd chops. [Dec 2003, p.117]

It's an insinuating set, bordering on morose in places. [Aug 2013, p.74]

Generally her pop is as adult as her lyrics. [Feb 2026, p.29]