Crockett's warm, buttery vocals melt through his latest collection, which delves into mid-century cowboy soundtracks for its cinematic plushness and moody grace. [Sep 2020, p.28]

The emotional imprint of The Fall moves beyond the pining, wistful tones that are her trademark in favour of Sex And The City scenarios bursting with heartbreak, regret and emotional devastation.

A heroic mutual soppiness is the key tot his dreamy two-tracker. [Jul 2016, p.74]

The playful tumbles of verbiage are as central to the group's sonic identity as the key components of its baroque power pop. [Nov 2019, p.28]

Sumptuous and sprawling, his major label debut comfortably backs up the hype. [Oct 2012, p.86]

FLOTUS ranks as one of Lambchop's most confounding to date, an album whose form and content are united in intimate, private purpose, but which may well turn out to be one of their best and most accessible. [Dec 2016, p.18]

It is without question a wintering record, but out of this muted musical landscape songs of great and complex beauty emerge. [Mar 2021, p.34]

Patterns Of Light grasps the surreal potential of the situation and responds with an OTT concept album. [Feb 2017, p.28]

Working with producer Jack Splash, they craft a dense, bracing, kaleidoscopic avant-soul backdrop for frontman Paul Janeway's musings on religion, politics and family. [Oct 2018, p.32]

An album that shines light, albeit dimly, into hidden corners of the soul. [May 2007, p.100]

12-song collection brings together four elders, three younger practitioners and original James Gang singer-guitarist Glenn Schwartz, along with The Black Keys in Deep-blues mode. [Sep 2023, p.37]

Always led by the miraculous voice of Ch'hom Nimol. So beautifully and effectively, in fact, that they end up giving fusion a good name. [Feb 2008, p.78]

Skeleton romps along at a joyful gait peppered with breathless harmonies and squalls of noise and subverts some familiar tools along the way. [Nov 2008, p.87]

If Offend Maggie doesn't have quite have that idiot's glee it's nevertheless quite a riot. [Nov 2008, p.94]

At moments conjures Steely Dan, Little Feat and Weather Report while stretching into new territory. Constant shifts in tone, tempo and scale keep this 14-track, 90-minute opus in constant motion. [May 2025, p.31]

Like Blue Velvet, Forget is a lurid fever dream--and a magnificent hymn to suburban teenage romance. [Jan 2011, p.98]

Atlas is dominated by a saturated prettiness that seems at once virtuoso and effortless. [Apr 2014, p.68]

Recording in an African village with a laptop and local musicians lends a more organic feel than previous releases. [May 2015, 84]

Holiday is resolutely sombre, but the arrangements make inviting drama out of Principe's impressionistic lyrical intimacies. [May 2013, p.75]

Her fourth album proves that she can apply those [AI techniques from her Circumstance Synthesis EP] to more structured, dynamic songs in a way that's instantly enthralling. [Aug 2020, p.27]

The third installment is almost shockingly concise at 30 minutes. ... Hearing one of the group's freewheeling jams coalesce into "Bel Air" 10 minutes into the proceedings still sparks a frisson of recognition that makes the series so exhilarating. [Nov 2022, p.46]

Think Screaming Trees' Dust, or Chris Cornell's Euphoria Morning, steeped in folk and psychedelia, the teenage angst of old weathered if not quite mellowed. [Aug 2020, p.30]

Atmospheric soundscapes. ... Awash with an adventurousness some might find surprising in a 71-year-old. [Oct 2021, p.25]

This, to paraphrase Burnett, just tore 2012 a new one. [Jun 2012, p.71]

This careful layering of old and new, east and west, has something of the forensic deliberation of post-rock experimentation about it, but songs like "For Everything That You Lost" and "They Keep Silence," which evokes Killing Joke, are thrilling in their intensity. [Aug 2016, p.77]

Some of the best moments involve lesser-known artists, such as The Mad Lads tearing through "Don't Have To Shop Around" and Wendy Rene Delivering a superlatively funky "Bar-B-Q". [Sep 2025, p.50]

Spoon's secret is that this tension is never quite released, the martial beat never breaks down, full rock music never quite kicks in. [Oct 2002, p.120]

It's compact, often menacing strangeness has its own beauty. [Aug 2013, p.71]