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

Field recordings and ghostly cello further underline "Ghosts of Blaker Dyke"'s poignancy, recalling David Sylvian's instrumentals on Gone To Earth. [Mar 2020, p.29]

The Civil Wars proves more than capable of producing its own dark drama. [Sep 2013, p.79]

Now bolstered by Joanna Bolme of The Jicks on bass, American Gong feels like a calculated attempt to juice up thier smart, literate rock. [Apr 2010, p.97]

Puny production and fey, knowing, songwriting provide little to hook the attention. [Nov 2009, p.88]

Shelley deliver[s] his best songs in years. [Apr 2006, p.96]

The songwriting basks in his love of music, freedom, friendship, dogs and tractors. [Jun 2013, p.78]

Deborah Harry's voice has rarely sounded better, perhaps energised by material worthy to stand alongside the group's brightest back pages. [Jun 2017, p.24]

It's the dumb, heads-down rockers that show BRMC at their best. [Feb 2018, p.24]

A peculiar take on neo-baroque folk with an utterly contemporary twist. [Apr 2005, p.100]

A strange, untethered creation. ... But when Romano Keeps it simple, he's terrific. [Feb 2019, p.32]

Their prevailing operatic bleakness has barely changed in the intervening 14 years. [Jun 2015, p.72]

He overthinks the rambling "JTR" and overstuffs the messy collage "Monkey Man."[Dec 2018, p.33]

A set of abstractions that are essentially pop in nature, rather than avant-garde. The seduce from the start. [Feb 2016, p.84]

The faster Avonmore goes, the better it sounds. [Dec 2014, p.70]

Nathan Williams and his brat-punks have reverted to the DIY route--surely the natural seedbed for their scattergun sonic brainstorms. [Jun 2017, p.38]

Her lyrics remain to-the-point, just more upbeat, with her wispy, whimsical vocals sitting snugly on top of crunchy guitars. [May 2009, p.85]

BPM works its vibrational magic with quietude and organic peace, and comes across more like a n ancient Zen ritual. [Apr 2012, p.71]

Kill The Wolf is another ruralist fantasy furnished with tales of witchcraft and maypoles. [Aug 2013, p.67]

Charms abound. [May 2015, p.73]

Array 1 hints at unfinished business, picking up almost where A Gilded Eternity left off. [Aug 2015, p.76]

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

The instrumentations are the highlights. [Mar 2016, p.82]

All up, a convincing shift. [May 2016, p.73]

The fruits of his change of mind are bittersweet and eloquent alt.pop songs that recall Bon Iver. [May 2016, p.82]

Cosmonaut is as stylishly warped as ever. [Oct 2016, p.35]

It's not quite as majestic as last year's self-titled album, but still a cut above. [Nov 2016, p.32]

The gambit [space-age sheen and quantised grooves] works on the trippy title track and the confrontational "If You Want It," but elsewhere it robs the band's hyper-rhythmic attack of its viscerally human feel. [Jan 2017, p.28]