Hark! I Inside the Old Year Dying is a singular thing. [Aug 2023, p.18]

Each song plays like a breath exhaled. Steve Shelley's production, too, is wonderfully sympathetic. [May 2023, p.36]

Ayers duets with Simonon in Spanish and English on a set of quirky compositions oozing the kind of playful charm her dad was so known for. [Jun 2023, p.29]

Entirely irresistible. [Aug 2023, p.33]

The more menacing "Fuzzbuster #09" could almost be an interlude on Sonic Youth's Confusion Is Sex. A few other discoveries are equally astonishing. [Jul 2023, p.48]

A fine album that suggests more pleasure to come. [Jul 2023, p.23]

Smartly enlisted esteemed producer Dave Fridmann, who illuminates their loose-limbed, self-assured character on kickass Stones-y opener "If I Try To Leave" and the cowbell-powered "Forgiving Ties," with its hooky Harrisonian central riff. [Aug 2023, p.28]

There's always been a hazy and reflective feel to her songs, but despite the title, her fourth is Power's most resolute set yet. [Jul 2023, p.22]

bdrmm have expanded their sound, retaining that youthful energy and combining it with ambition and impressive marshalling of dynamics that creates a strangely serene album. [Aug 2023, p.25]

On Chaos For The Fly, Chatten is able to chase down a succession of personal demons, while broadening his emotional, musical and vocal range. [Aug 2023, p.24]

There's little on her 16th album to suggest it's anything other than business as usual. [Jul 2023, p.36]

He too, has become more of what he always was. And somehow he's achieved that by paring his music down t its rawest essence. [Jul 2023, p.26]

The set offers power-pop gems like "Darlin'", a prospective Strokes classic in "818", and the closing surprise "Alright Tomorrow" a disco burner sung by actress/vocalist Rainsford. [Jul 2023, p.27]

Ornery eloquence. [Aug 2023, p.34]

It's hard to begrudge the Boos this sunny, mellifluous midlife comeback. [Aug 2023, p.25]

Demonstrates that PSB are without peer as exponents of the pop single. [Aug 2023, p.50]

If Segovia had gone electric, one could imagine the results might have sounded something like this. [Aug 2023, p.34]

Pure musical alchemy. [Aug 2023, p.29]

Amiably gentle but uplifting follow-up. [Aug 2023, p.25]

Their sixth sees the band hitting a peak of airy, classic modernism, marked by elegant polyphony, smart dynamics and Kate Stables' thoughtful lyrics. [Aug 2023, p.38]

Setting out their stall with mannered glitch-pop and sardonic art-rock, both usually entangled. [Aug 2023, p.38]

Margaret's melodies are often submerged, but her approach is not entirely ambient. [Aug 2023, p.34]

The drama can recall Florence + The Machine more than their dream-pop origins, but the mood - lacerating self-doubt becoming decay-defying euphoria - is Lanterns On The Lake's own. [Aug 2023, p.33]

It takes up where 2019's Infest The Rats' Nest left off, though was pieced together from improv jams. [Aug 2023, p.33]

A potent, heavy distillation of everything the group have done. [Aug 2023, p.30]

The Foos album closest to Nirvana. [Aug 2023, p.29]

Infectious. [Aug 2023, p.26]

Hardly groundbreaking, but bursting with charm. [Aug 2023, p.26]