An album that feels joyously cathartic as well as musically stunning. [May 2014, p.76]

For all his experimentalism, Adamson never once loses sight of the song. [Dec 2008, p.94]

L'Aventura could well be his best album. [Sep 2014, p.78]

It's hard to dispute that Ufabulum find him in the form of his life. [Jun 2012, p.84]

A confident debut, a record that is greater still than the sum of its impressive parts. [Jul 2015, p.74]

While the deliberate shapelessness can sometimes appear strangely listless, the rhythmic intensity of "Abstract/Actress" takes things to another level, with the pair working the sound into a primal fury of feedback and clamour. [Dec 2016, p.25]

Technicolor Health amply delivers on the promis of their 2007 EP, "Burning Birthdays." [Apr 2009, p.86]

Thee Oh Sees manage to simultaneously evoke Suicide, Them and The Fall on their latest album of echoey, dense psychedelia. [Aug 2010, p.96]

While some of these missiles find their target, he is back with less of a bang than he might have hoped. [Jun 2012, p.70]

The success rate is variable. [Oct 2005, p.94]

More than another coaster on the coffee-table circuit. [Mar 2005, p.108]

There's only one possible word for this: rad. [May 2013, p.79]

Nite Fields' debut album is a far grittier prospect than the neon-lit, 1980s-flavoured spelling of their name suggests, thanks largely to its predominant mood of nocturnal gloom. [Apr 2015, p.81]

A career peak. [Oct 2015, p.78]

An album filled with similarly delicious moments. [Apr 2017, p.22]

Further requires an injection of personality that low-key collaborators Stephanie Dosen and Francis Ten just can't provide. [Jul 2010, p103]

Heroes may be elegiac, but it's as spirited as it is poignant. [Jun 2012, p.70]

It’s a majestic, grandiose, machine-tooled album, subtly orchestrated with gothic pianos and doomy organs.

Levi's penchant for cracked-up nursery-rhyme melodies and wry humour elevate what might've been an exercise in wilful primitivism. [Oct 2015, p.80]

An occasionally frustrating listen, but never a dull one. [Apr 2017, p.28]

Too often, Aereogramme's tastefulness veers on the side of caution. [Mar 2007, p.75]

Panoramic, synthetically symphonic and a lot of fun. [Jul 2015, p.77]

Red of Tooth & Claw sometimes feels too much like style over substance, but the best moments here are in the detail. [July 2008, p.106]

there's a little too much here that's predictable or worse still, forgettable. [Sep 2011, p.91]

An expansive, atmospheric reboot of the muscular melancholy of 1985's Once Upon A Time. [Mar 2018, p.32]

It’s E’s lyrics that are the true, bitter joy of this record, sacrificing nothing of their wit in pursuit of heartbreaking, heartbroken directness.

Too many average slow jams.... They just remind you he's still around; short of a tune, but the unique inhabitant of a purple planet all his own. [Nov 2014, p.80]

Kohncke hasn't yet managed to pull off a completely successful, consistently great album. Wonderful Frequency Band is the closest he's come, terrible punning aside, largely due to its focus on the dancefloor. [Feb 2014, p.77]