The result is a highly engaging, emotionally rich debut, where defiant working-class pride anthems like “Dig!” jostle for space alongside the soaring urban blues confessional “This Here Ain’t Water” and the joyously puerile playground chant “Shithouse”. [Jun 2024, p.29]

Every one of these songs is a big-hearted meditation on love and sex and faith and especially healing, as though what roots us to our own lands is loss and grief and recovery. [Feb 2023, p.34]

Sodden with emotional profundity. [May 2004, p.104]

A set of drifting piano ballads that allow her rich and profane lyrics to hit home. [Jan 2022, p.22]

These 13 grooving and textural song-poems are his most focused work to date and, although loaded with meaning, Ma never feels heavy or burdensome. [Oct 2019, p.24]

Disquiet is a marathon - it's more than three hours long - but every minute matters. [Nov 2025, p.35]

The new album is singular in its conception and an impressive leap forward in terms of execution. [Nov 2020, p.20]

Tracks flirt with minimalism, spiky synth-pop and krautrock while creating an entirely original sonic language. [Review of the Year 2025, p.28]

A thrilling racket it is too, the quartet achieving a winning balance of improv and melodic suss on a bunch of hairy psychedelic jams. [Oct 2019, p.26]

An affecting, lyrical record that makes you feel blessed for not having lived through it, but wiser, so graceful for the ride. [Oct 2012, p.74]

With their abundance of charm and good cheer, the performances ensure the patchier numbers still satisfy. More genuinely impressive are "You Get The Feeling" and "Hell On Earth", corkers that demonstrate the creative chemistry that was there since moment one. [Mar 2026, p.37]

What makes The Eraser great is Yorke's singing. [Aug 2006, p.82]

This multilayered and multigenre approach results in an album that is as deeply introspective as it is creatively bold and ambitious. [May 2021, p.25]

Waffles, Triangles & Jesus marks the welcome return of White the singer-songwriter, unpacking reassuringly odd, skewed narratives that offer a surrealist's view of southern life. [Dec 2018, p.26]

A generous and expansive set of sensual pop. [Apr 2017, p.39]

It's his best yet. [Jun 2020, p.38]

Some songs don't quite live up to the arrangements, but the sonic ambition here shames nearly every other major-label release of 2016. [Jul 2016, p.78]

The 11 original compositions here are full of warm compassion and ripe wisdom. [Sep 2020, p.27]

Bruised suburban romance sparkles through the twin jangles of Edwards and James Wignall. [Jun 2012, p.84]

It's worth getting lost in their groove. [Jun 2011, p.93]

The frontman and his septet sculpt grooves and hooks that immediately grab hold. [Dec 2021, p.33]

The Luyas concentrate on sounding endearing rather than epic. [Mar 2011, p.94]

Unsound is a corker, sounding fresh and full of great hooks and ideas. [Aug 2012, p.77]

An affectionate collection of Walker's songs. [Aug 2012, p.80]

On Grace & Dignity is his best yet. [Apr 2023, p.28]

Like a blurrier version of Tame Impala's Lonerism, each listen reveals further pleasures. [Sep 2013, p.91]

This Terrific follow-up is even better, the quartet unloading a clamorous set of songs full of pique, provocation and waspish humour. [Aug 2015, p.77]

Bloodlines and geography figure into every NMAs album, but on Set Sail, Luther and Cody Dickinson make family and setting the conjoined theme. [Mar 2022, p.32]