Antigone is one of most intelligent, beautiful and entrancing albums you're likely to hear all year. [Apr 2025, p.26]

Against all odds it works, distilling shots of Bowie, Billy Idol and inevitably, Pulp into a surprisingly potent cocktail of list and regret. [May 2025, p.35]

Elemental and beautiful. [Apr 2025, p.31]

Quade's trump card is the way they balance graceful solemnity with little sparks of discontent. [May 2025, p.35]

Eight lively compositions that strike a sometimes uneasy balance between structural rigour and woolier, woozier inclinations. [Jul 2025, p.29]

This LP is accordingly freeform and exultant. [Jul 2025, p.29]

The highlights are "TH", "RL", "KTYWS" and "WAL", which all dig deep into Quincy Jones=style late-70s boogie and disco: a riot of rubbery, pitchwheel-assisted synth basslines, smart horn stabs and Cleo Sol's flirtatious, harmony-laden vocals. [Aug 2025, p.37]

Chaimbeul brings a seriousness to her music, her smallpipes conjuring a range of intense drones and hypnotic ululations. The Pipes, though, are just the frame fir a deeper dive into Gaelic tradition and folklore. [Jul 2025, p.26]

With its scratch groove and percussive shuffle, "Back At The Start" is about as busy as they get, but it's a masterclass in the persuasive power of less is more. .... For the most part, Crown Of Roses succeeds via its concentrated hush, a rootless simmer that suggests the imminent arrival of a full storm. [Sep 2025, p.32]

There are a few dated misfires here, but overall, All The Young Droids is a warm-hearted, playful and sporadically dazzling tribute to the futurist dreams of yesteryear. [Jul 2025, p48]

So Long... is deeply rooted in west Coast sunset pop, more Fleetwood Mac than Del McCoury, although her guitar picking is always precise, imaginative, and, on "The Highway Knows", utterly joyful. [Oct 2025, p.35]

That it all hangs together so seamlessly is testament to his inherent charm. There's a warmth and looseness to these songs that feels deeply convivial. [Oct 2025, p.28]

Perhaps the richest and most varied of the trilogy. [Sep 2025, p.29]

It's a chronological trip, serving as a scrapbook of memories for Gedge himself, borne out by his lively track-by-track annotation. [Nov 2025, p.51]

Often sounds like a man having his most wretched suspicions of the human conditions confirmed, especially on the self-explanatory " The Body Keep The Score" and "I Keep On Coming Back For More". However, his signature bleary wit remains radiant, especially on "Rita Wrote A Letter". [Review of the Year 2025, p.26]

A most welcome return. [Dec 2025, p.31]

While Workin' Man also marks the final studio contributions of Nelson's pianist sister Bobbie and drummer Paul English, the mood is very much celebratory. [Review of the Year 2025, p.27]

Ireland shows the breadth as well as the depth of the scene. [Dec 2025, p.37]

Stripped ac and stretched out, in Toral's hands these pieces become devotional as he zones in in on their essence. [Dec 2025, p.37]

An exhausting yet improbably exhilarating listen. [Jan 2026, p.31]

Your Picture is full of love, radiating Beach Boys bliss with that killer thread of melancholy, and evoking Pastor TL Barrett's choral devotionals. [Review of the Year 2025, p.28]

Imaginative album. [Jan 2026, p.32]

As ever, he's at his most engaging playing slide and singing in a gentle baritone on acoustic compositions such as "Go Down Ol' Hannah" and the title track. [Jan 2026, p.27]

Righteous and blissful. [Apr 2026, p.33]

This follow-up sees their experimental instincts tempered rather than tamed, with more focus on song structure and melody, and Susman's expressive vocals softened. [Apr 2026, p.34]

There's an urgency to The Leaf Library's latest that's unlike anything we've heard from them before. [May 2026, p.33]

The shape, tone and settings of songs from "Gitarhum" onward shift their author's stance and point her somewhere else, perhaps yet to be determined. That they do so without throwing her off balance is another mark of Evergreen In Your Mind's achievement. [May 2026, p.28]

Long Wave Home is full of innovative arrangements and quirky vocals, but it's equally stuffed with great songs. [May 2026, p.30]