The record prompts leaning in, not least of all for the gentle, cantering insistence of "Have Heaven" and "Our Hearts In A Room", with its soft piano and brush work. [Apr 2025, p.29]

King Gizzard's most cohesive record to date--a hyper-detailed punk opera that few of their peers have matched for intensity, ambition or sheer derangement. [Jun 2016, p.77]

Like The Siren’s Song itself, it feels both ageless and beguiling, a classic record for this or any other time.

The Youth sound rejuvenated. [Jul 2004, p.108]

Relayted manages to be both comfortingly familiar and devastatingly futuristic. [Jun 2010, p.90]

herring's poetic analysis of a recent break-up makes it all a compelling listen. [Nov 2020, p.29]

It comes from a place of vulnerability, but speaks the language of strength and self-belief, with enough to share around. [Oct 2024, p.38]

Adds extra confidence and clarity to the same basic ingredients. [Oct 2005, p.107]

Five Dice, All Threes sounds like they’ve caught up with themselves: even if Bright Eyes are struggling to scrape together optimism about the future, there is every reason why their fans should. [Nov 2024, p.30]

A powerful example of how songs reverberate through the years to accrue contemporary meaning. [Jun 2006, p.92]

His strong, unfussy voice is endlessly empathetic and his guitar playing lithe and expressive. [Oct 2011, p.98]

Fanfare rummages through the past in a way that will provide aural comfort food for many Uncut readers and writers but Wilson has found a way of personalising and transforming these fragments into a very contemporary music. [Nov 2013, p.61]

Substantial tranches of the Matrix Tapes have already appeared elsewhere. [Jan 2016, p.89]

Overall, it's a long, strange ride, and Joshua judges ruefully. [May 2017, p.18]

This score suggests many of those Nine Inch Nails tricks hold good. [mar 2012, p.97]

If "The Liquid Hour" is restless over a longer stretch, its conclusion is nonetheless charming. [Apr 2025, p.39]

Kweller is a disarming presence and an unpretentious sonic architect. [Mar 2012, p.90]

On God’s Problem Child, he sounds a bit like a weathered harmonica: he might have lost some of his higher notes, but he can soar through all the ones that count. The arrangements, which skew more toward classic country and slower tempos than Band Of Brothers, also help highlight Willie’s strengths.

The many highlights on this big name covers album include Lily Allen--sounding like Kate Nash impersonating Lily Allen--locating the wobbly charm in Joe Strummer's 'Straight To Hell,' Elbow's adding a shabby grandeur to U2's 'Running To Stand Still,' and Rufus Wainwright bringing his heavenly voice to Brian Wilson's 'Wonderful.'

The sound they've fashioned is glossy and supersaturated while still exhibiting the subversive impulse that yielded the supremely catchy but subtly sinister smash "Pumped Up Kicks." [Apr 2014, p.74]

Take “Breakfast On The Train”, among the most involving songs this storied chronicler of the heart has ever penned. .... The other seven tracks on this self-contained album are no slouches either. [Jun 2025, p.32]

A series of folds, jump cuts and swarms, it's disorienting yet utterly gorgeous. [Jun 2016, p.79]

Nestled between krautrock clatter and art-school drones are tracks that feel like stadium-sized anthems, particularly the Coldplay-meets-MGMT chugger "He Falls To Me" and the Afro-pop singalong "Underage". [Dec 2009, p. 97]

Recalls the more amusing moments of Momus and Stereolab. [Nov 2002, p.116]

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

Silly and overblown, but wittily, brilliantly so. [Jul 2013, p.73]

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

Portico's rejuvenated quartet status brings with it more of the jazz-influenced stylings that first made their name, [Oct 2017, p.36]