Sugar, by comparison [to "Wrecking Ball"], feels laboured. [Sep 2010, p.91]

A highly unoriginal record. [Mar 2007, p.86]

An LP that once raved shamelessly now shuffles, twitchily. [Oct 2009, p.95]

Removed from the comfort of his own musical constructions, they often sound like a collection of rasps, croaks and burrs optimistically corralled in to what just might be words; Latin has never sounded more like a dead language than when Dylan sings in it on "O Come All Ye-Faithful". [Dec 2009, p. 87]

From the Top of Willamette Mountain sounds more confident than the UK debut he released earlier this year.

Argentinian rockers Los Enanitos Verdes turn "Travelin' Band" into a turbocharged burst of bilingual tropical rockabilly, and Spanish singing star Bunbury adds a thrilling salsa dance workout to "Corre Por La Jungla." [Nov 2016, p.40]

Enjoyable solo debut. [Nov 2017, p.30]

[They] now sound more immediate, but seem to have forsaken some of their delicacy for caffeinated fuzz-pop, minus hooks. [Jun 2006, p.120]

Hampered by Gray's dial-a-diva rasp, Big is nowhere near as good as it should be. [May 2007, p.92]

This is inventive and witty stuff. [June 2002, p.126]

Already it feels like they're playing to a rapidly disappearing crowd. [Mar 2012, p.89]

Music without charm or purpose, with all the nutritional value of a Twinkie. [Apr 2012, p.71]

Toris 10th refuses to gel into anything illuminating. [Jun 2009, p.83]

Prove[s] Haas has more to offer than ear-crunching cacophony. [Sep 2005, p.105]

If their third album doesn't exactly do anything new in the field, it is undoubtedly well observed. [Apr 2016, p.82]

Some of their poppiest songs to date. [Nov 2006, p.106]

The veteran Frankfort duo's rather sterile approach to arty club bangers such as "divine" and "Regenerate" leaves them creatively stranded, scoring a hair-gel as on the VIVA channel. [Jun 2010, p.83]

Their brand of gut-wrenching emo, aligned to fearsome fantasy rock remains both wildly overcooked and deeply derivative. [Jun 2013, p.79]

The Less you know is a rather ponderous return to form. [Dec 2011, p.81]

Sadly, nothing on Meteora comes close to the piano-laced pathos of previous hit "In The End." [Jun 2003, p.110]

Few of the colourful oddities that filled his debut remain, but there's still much melodic guile to admire--albeit increasingly difficult to love. [Sep 2004, p.96]

This is a cool dance album... but Tiga lacks that all-important 'X factor'. [Mar 2006, p.100]

We're All Somebody delivers high-sheen Billboard country fare, more Keith Urban than back-porch picking. [Sep 2016, p.81]

It's frequently chaotic, but instruments occasionally coalesce into unusual, oddly beautiful forms. [Jun 2006, p.112]

His mystical belief in the power of love pervades the material, sometimes anthemically, sometimes playfully, but always disarmingly. [Oct 2007, p.96]

Smith's lyrical flights of fancy come off somewhat top-heavy, but by and large such bookish pretentions feel like something to appreciate, not castigate. [Mar 2014, p.79]

This two-disc compilation charting the journey suggests it was simply a matter of waiting for Travis to falter, tweaking the Coldplay template and amping up the earnest Celtic bluster. [Dec 2009, p. 113]

Comparisons are inevitable, but take nothing away from Asa's own character. [Apr 2011, p.75]