Amelia Fletcher and Cathy Rogers' harmonies remain charmingly sweet. [Mar 2026, p.33]

Imaginative, poignant and fundamentally, achingly human. [Feb 2026, p.30]

Nina Nastasia’s contributions to “Iron Bones”’s Enomeets-Yorke somnolence reminds us how Strawberry Hotel, like so much of Underworld’s catalogue, frequently renders the prosaic romantic and the banal consequential. [Dec 2024, p.34]

A mighty feat of reinvention. [Mar 2026, p.36]

Most compelling are the variety of vocals--some spoken, some hollered, some sung in spinetingling harmonies. [Sep 2008, p.98]

There are jarring moments but Holter's quest to channel the clatter of the universe produces transcendent beauty too. [Nov 2018, p.24]

Atmospheric, good-natured and often very beautiful. [Nov 2025, p.33]

There are many sterling moments to escape from Young's vault--but none seem quite as unguarded as the best ones here. [Jan 2014, p.84]

I've Been Trying to Tell You is immediate and soulful. [Oct 2021, p.26]

They're every bit as gleeful as they are virtuosic. [Jun 2026, p.26]

No other pony does his one trick half as well. [Apr 2016, p.76]

Lights may be bleak, but that only makes the moments of catharsis all the more illuminating. [Dec 2017, p.22]

It’s the work of a focused artist who is consistently attempting to stretch out the parameters of their own ever-expanding sonic world. ... Yet another late-career highlight. [Oct 2022, p.22]

Quietly devastating. [Dec 2002, p.131]

The emotional honesty displayed is equally effecting [as 2018's Warm]. [Jul 2019, p.37]

When The Roses Come Again feels like something impossibly ancient, sent back to us from some distant future. [Dec 2023, p.32]

Despite the obvious threads, songs as good as “Nullspace” and “Soonish” transcend any cynicism, and you’re left bathing in a welcome optimism. [Dec 2024, p.35]

Welcome signs of movement after a lengthy stasis. [Mar 2014, p.80]

Canyons Of My Mind amply confirms the considerable promise Combs has previously displayed. [May 2017, p.26]

Seldom is the personal married to the political in such an enchanting fashion. [Aug 2015, p.75]

An elegant, sculpted electronica that's cerebral of construction but robust enough to beat a dance floor into life. [Jan 2015, p.69]

Cruel Country is the rare album that throws everything that came before it into sharp relief – a small miracle for a band 30 years into its run. [Jul 2022, p.22]

Dig deeper, though, and what we have here is a record more in line with the excellent, vengeful Americana of frontman Michael Gira's latter-day Angels Of Light fare. [Oct 2010, p.106]

[An] utterly wonderful record. [May 2015, p.76]

Their breakneck energy highlights the thrilling strangeness of their structures and textures. [Mar 2017, p.40]

Sometimes the honesty gets close to discomfiting, but it's always compelling. [Mar 2018, p.47]

Magnificent. [Nov 2011, p.84]

There is sleaze here and funeral swing, and sass to spare. [Jun 2009, p.105]