This controlled bedlam is just the thing for fans of the similarly explosive, experimental and exploratory sounds of Comets On Fire, Oneida and Black Mountain. [Aug 2005, p.97]

The tunes are so fragmentary, it resembles a '60s hi-fi demonstration disc. [Jul 2005, p.89]

More conservative than 2001's Melody AM, with little of the twinkling, yodelling mania that distinguished them from their late-night-friendly peers. [Aug 2005, p.103]

For every inspired turn, there's an insubstantial one, while some merely appear sluggish. [Aug 2005, p.96]

TMSR are a bit more focused and less shaggily psychedelic than [Broken Social Scene], but certainly never short on ideas. [Mar 2006, p.91]

The production lacks [Timbaland's] invention and intricacy. [Aug 2005, p.87]

A gleaming set of R&B, pop, bedroom soul and even reggae. [Sep 2005, p.112]

An extraordinary achievement. [Album of the Month, Aug 2005, p.86]

Wilderness take the clang of post-punk and invest it with an elatory fervour. [Sep 2005, p.111]

As satisfying as it is stylish. [Jul 2004, p.95]

Multiply marks the full flowering of a singular talent. [Jul 2005, p.99]

It's the vocals that will seal this deal for you--or break it. [Feb 2006, p.79]

Shows Lali Puna's more adventurous side. [Aug 2005, p.110]

Many of FoW's reserves outclass others' first team. [Aug 2005, p.115]

Pajo is not, and will never be, a great singer.... His guitar playing, though, is as quietly inventive as ever. [Jul 2005, p.96]

Alongside the sexually explicit likes of "Pull My Hair" and "Wait" sit conscious soul and creamy R&B. [Nov 2005, p.94]

Barrie Cadogan is a guitar phenomenon. [Mar 2005, p.102]

Never quite rises above the mundane. [Aug 2005, p.98]

The melodies and brittle guitars burrow into your cerebrum. [Jul 2005, p.106]

Not hopeless, but hopelessly self-indulgent. [Jul 2005, p.94]

As challenging as it is comforting. [Jul 2005, p.106]

Their 2002 debut was a surprising success, but Haunted Cities struggles to repeat the trick. [Sep 2005, p.100]

[A] sturdy ensemble record. [Jul 2005, p.104]

A band slowly escaping the weight of their still-obvious influences. [Aug 2005, p.104]

With Chavez Ravine he has performed another ethnomusicological miracle, opening a can of worms while drawing us deep into the musical heart of a lost community. [Jul 2005, p.90]

A second cousin to New Pornographers' Electric Version. [Jul 2005, p.103]

Exceedingly pleasant, if hardly groundbreaking. [Aug 2005, p.104]

Unquestionably the work of a band with ambitions rekindled. [Jul 2005, p.92]