Kannon will leave other neophytes feeling awed by the complexity and physicality achieved here. [Jan 2016, p.70]

Like its predecessor, the most impressive aspect of The Enemy Chorus is not so much the breadth of its references as the tumescent, head-spinning harmonies. [Feb 2007, p.74]

The Grinderman hat seems to have tilted the basic Bad Seeds stance brilliantly on its side, bringing out a new humour and a grumpy-old-rocker gravitas. [Apr 2007, p.102]

Luminous versions of American folk songs and old English ballads, alongside works by Lour Reed and Joy Division. [Mar 2018, p.35]

Impeccably arranged, the whole thing plays out like an extended, pragmatic version of "A Day In The Life." [Mar 2012, p.82]

There's something bleak about this music, but it is spacious, often epic, too. [May 2016, p.73]

It's an agreeably raw listen. [Mar 2016, p.80]

Introspective and tightly wound. [Sep 2020, p.26]

The invigorating Downey to Lubbock, a record that speaks to both a lifetime of shared experience and the music that inspired them in the first place. [Jul 2018, p.26]

Though occasionally guilty of easy-listening tastefulness, the Haikus rarely sound less than gorgeous. [Oct 2021, p.28]

The result is a deeply eclectic yet remarkably cohesive record that unfurls in pleasingly unpredictable ways. [Oct 2020, p.32]

It's packed with diverse performances. [Mar 2012, p.104]

The overall mood is slinkily, scuzzily surreal. ... It's a deep trip into Murphy's past and future. [Nov 2020, p.33]

Nearer The Fountain, More Pure The Stream Flows is soaked in a peculiar English melancholy. ... Best of all is the closer “Particles”, one of Albarn’s finest melodies, a woozy, drumless ballad based around a pretty Wurlitzer electric piano riff and a creepy electronic drone that gives the song a hymn-like quality. [Dec 2021, p.22]

Loving, not by the spoonful but by the bucketful. [Oct 2015, p.80]

The uninitiated may hear only a wonky Julian Cope at 25rpm, but somewhere on Screen Memories is the point where performance art ends and genuine mania begins. [Nov 2017, p.32]

Like The Knife's opera about Charles Darwin, The Unfolding tackles the biggest themes in a way that's awed, never overwrought. [May 2022, p.32]

It's a maddening inversion of all the conventions of songwriting, but a brilliant one nonetheless. [Dec 2006, p.102]

Little Fictions is the sound of a band doing what it's always done, and doing it with style. [Mar 2017, p.28]

12 luminous and inventive songs. [Mar 2020, p.36]

The real triumph of Easy Tiger is less rooted in the sound, more in the attitude. [Jul 2007, p.114]

There are times when the playing of the session band is slick to the point of blandness, and the production (by Davies and Ray Kennedy) is crisply tasteful when the songs cry out for dissonance.... But when it works, it works.

Sensual beauty abounds. [Apr 2018, p.24]

It is Lanegan's most accessible to date. [Mar 2012, p.83]

Bang Zoom Crazy... Hello could very well be the band's most consistently thrilling long-player since the Carter administration. [May 2016, p.70]

[Greg Dulli has] pulled the Whigs back into (sharp) focus. ... Closer “In Flames” is a welcome reminder that few can match the Whigs in the slow-burn desperation stakes. [Oct 2022, p.23]

Deerhoof are close to knocking the Flaming Lips off their exalted perch. [Feb 2011, p.82]

Tosta Mista fades like a film score and then hit you with a bang on "Clap." [Feb 2012, p.89]