The sound of a major talent gone major league. [Apr 2003, p.105]

As with the best bedroom punk records, the bloody-knuckled passion and immediacy of these 13 rapid songs transcends any cavils about sound quality. [Oct 2003, p.130]

It's amazing they're still so punk, so relentlessly jagged and vicious. [Apr 2003, p.110]

This is a very odd album. [Apr 2003, p.103]

An eclectic, often crazed debut album.... They have all the hallmarks of an excellent, innovative band that won't be undone by their own hype. [Sep 2002, p.105]

Mancunian hipsters will shudder in disbelief. [July 2002, p.101]

The closest Wilco parallel to this sunshine pop is probably the Summerteeth album. [Apr 2003, p.108]

The album's polished sheen and lack of emotional focus may disappoint electro-trash devotees accustomed to low-rent sleaze and punky rawness. [Jun 2002, p.118]

The results are as charming as they are accessible. [Feb 2003, p.86]

Neon Golden often comes on like a radical update of New Order's Lowlife period, where mournful guitar songs are integrated into a mesh of clicks, pops, glitches and samples. [Mar 2003, p.96]

At times he tries too hard, but there's much here to commend. [Nov 2002, p.114]

Though it flags towards the end, The Music is, for the most part, a shot in the arm. [Oct 2002, p.110]

Provides a gentle but subtle introduction to the sometimes onerous world of avant-techno. [Apr 2003, p.122]

A sustained soft explosion of hushed, aching indietronica. [June 2003, p.91]

Oddly absorbing and surprisingly cohesive. [Apr 2003, p.120]

Mood-wise it's their bleakest yet. [Mar 2003, p.112]

A resounding success. [Jun 2003, p.92]

Another treasure. [Mar 2003, p.95]

Their music is an intoxicatingly vivid evocation of the mythology of the American west and its Hispanic heritage, and Feast Of Wire lays down an optimistically early marker as one of the albums of the year. [Mar 2003, p.98]

It helps that these 10 primitive songs are excellent, and that The Datsuns attack them with such vehemently anti-ironic gusto. [Nov 2002, p.118]

Sparse yet graceful, these 14 songs of love and loss interpret wispy folk and slow-burning country via brittle, lo-fi angularity. [Mar 2003, p.100]

There's real poeticised emoting here. [May 2003, p.108]

Takes a few listens to become accustomed to. [Mar 2003, p.104]

The band achieve an impressive impact with a wide dynamic range. [Jun 2003, p.109]

Rustic, rowdy, bags of fun, Life On Other Planets is another Supergrass masterpiece. [Nov 2002, p.118]

This is his conscious attempt to inject a sense of urgency probably not heard on a Bad Seeds album since 1994's Let Love In. [Mar 2003, p.96]

[An] unapologetic throwback to straight-assed songs about guns, girls and drugs. [May 2003, p.109]

Plaintive desert rock and gilded chamber pop with heart and poise. [Nov 2002, p.122]