This blend of Sabbath-inspired riffing, windswept chug and songs called things like 'Fire Lances of the Ancient Hyperzephyrians' has a neat shtick, no particularly awkward edges, and a vague sense of nostalgia for an adolescence maybe you never lived the first time out. [May 2008, p.107]

Boo! has plenty of highpoints. [May 2008, p.113]

If you fell for Real Estate and their peers, here's the root. [Mar 2012, p.81]

Little Honey is a heartening and humble album, sufficiently smart and aware to be an expression of thanks for the journey as well as the destination.

Jeffes has safeguarded the Orchestra's broad, eccentric range of instruments, and shifts effortlessly from the drones of "Control 1 (Interlude)" to the good-natured, pastoral pleasures of "Ricercar." [Jun 2017, p.37]

The band's smarts and muscle come together with a resounding whomp on the new LP. [Apr 2012, p.75]

Recorded partially outdoors, Resin Pockets' sometimes rough and rustic nature belies the grace and beauty in Jones' deceptively causal songs. [Jul 2017, p.26]

One trick ponies, yes, but it's a good trick. [Jun 2009, p.83]

When it's glorious, it really is glorious. [Jul 2018, p.18]

An album that, on first listen, glides by doing nothing wrong. Second time around, you realise that, more accurately, it's doing everything right, and you're spellbound. [Jun 2003, p.92]

It's all acoustic guitars, rich jangling melodies and heavenly harmonies. [May 2003, p.102]

To get the measure of Jagger's contribution you have to turn to the five new songs on disc two, which are also the meat of the DVD offering.

It might not be the best Hold Steady Album, but it might be their most purely enjoyable. [Sep 2019, p.35]

It's like Belle & Sebastian slopping sorbet with early Jonathan Richman. [Feb 2004, p.82]

While tracks like "Cherokee" take a gently pulsing and melodic groove and expand it into something quietly euphoric, before dipping happily back into quieter, odder moments. [Mar 2022, p.25]

Lush, lightly electronic chamber-pop arrangements dominate. [Oct 2015, p.84]

Whether her anguish is existential or emotional is uncertain, but the song’s downbeat nature makes it an unusual album exit. What is abundantly clear is that Bock’s creative star is very much with her. [Nov 2024, p.38]

The darkness of his vision remains unmatched. [Oct 2024, p.36]

It's understated excellence at best, perhaps a little inoffensive at worse, and entirely a continuation of the aesthetic the Brooklyn-based guitarist has honed for the last two years. [Feb 2019, p.27]

BAG's core values remain intact, but it's an exhilarating advance. [Feb 2019, p.24]

Memories Are Now is built on stacked voices, sparse rhythm and twisted folk shapes, but the execution varies pleasingly. [Mar 2017, p.32]

But though much of the record revels in freaky electronics--'Chores' and 'Winter Wonder Land' rush through as though played by pixellated marching bands--there’s an overwhelming sadness to the undertow

The result is typically elegant and--perhaps surprisingly, given the circumstances--uplifting work about the affairs of the heart. [Mar 2016, p.80]

It's safe to say this is the most endlessly playable comedy album of the new millennium. [May 2008, p.95]

A remarkable, genre-defying album. [Mar 2012, p.86]

These are thoroughly modern songs--and very much Harding's own. [Jun 2017, p.30]

It's an exhilarating racket, to say the least. [Sep 2009, p.88]

Andrews' deft touch with an insidious melody and candid phrase extends whatever solace she finds to her audience as well. [Jul 2020, p.27]