His spacious and captivating 2020 LP Alexandra felt like a breakthrough in this respect; Fleeting Adventure is even better.

Subtle it is not, but it's thrilling, adrenaline-pumping stiff that's fun as it is angry. [Apr 2026, p.29]

Impressively, in a nod to Avery's crowd-pleasing and circuit-bending skills, this is a techno album that seldom sags. [Nov 2013, p.65]

Utterly addictive and reality-shifting. [Jan 2017, p.21]

Delivers intimately detailed tales set to hushed arrangements. [Sep 2023, p.37]

Despite his melancholy rep, Lekman's rarely sounded sunnier. [Mar 2017, p.32]

Jara's story gives a dramatic, yearning quality to the libretto that suits Bradfield's epic style, and allows a sense of unity to emerge through individual songs. [Sep 2020, p.27]

There's an earworm-like lure in every track. [Aug 2011, p.98]

A subtle, unshowy set it may be, but Toumani & Sidiki shows that this particular family affair will endure... perhaps for another 70 generations. [May 2014, p.75]

His style is scraggly yet sophisticated, ranging boldly from country drones to rambunctious rural ragas. [Oct 2016, p.26]

The underlying sense given off by the LP's inventive chord changes, soaring melodies, eloquent language and silky vocals--notably on the rhapsodic "Semaphore" and "Flight"--is that of a 21st century Joni Mitchell. [Oct 2016, p.31]

There's a sharper focus this time round. [Apr 2022, p.31]

Live At Goose Lake is messy, thrilling and utterly unhinged. In other words, it's The Stooges at their best. [Sep 2020, p.44]

These songs often sound like Broadway-style miniatures tilted at strange angles. [Feb 2021, p.30]

The highlight is "I'll Do Whatever You Want", a gentle nimbus of melody featuring fellow flute convert Andre 3000 and Floating Points' Samuel Shepherd on twinkling Rhodes. [May 2024, p.39]

Understated and underestimated. [Nov 2004, p.113]

Bowles' music is rarely less than seductive, the product of both a gifted multi-instrumentalist and restless cultural forager. [Nov 2018, p.26]

Taken on their own, they're slight. The cumulative intensity of the album, though, is something else altogether. [Sep 2025, p.37]

As the LP continues, you are progressively engrossed. [Oct 2015, p.84]

Sombre but spellbindingly ethereal nostalgia. [Jun 2017, p.28]

A lovely record. [Jan 2018, p.22]

Cray's oft-overlooked voice croons with rare tenderness over the Bobby "Blue" Bland cut "You're The One," and there's a spiky funk to Don Gardner's "My Baby Likes To Boogaloo." But Cray's own compositions are just as striking. [Apr 2020, p.26]

Touched by sadness but tinged with hope, this is a masterful album on which the sound of tradition is rendered vital and visceral in a very present sense. [Oct 2020, p.33]

It’s a story as old as Pet Sounds, but one that bears repeated re-telling. [Jul 2021, p.31]

There's no revolutionary do-over taking place here, just solid, reliable indie rock from a songwriter who knocks it out with what's bordering on flippant ease. [Apr 2022, p.28]

Great-uh. [Jun 2023, p.31]

The results are instantly rewarding. [Review of the Year 2023, p.21]

Features eight lengthy original instrumentals, om which his guitar playing is as vibrant and virtuosic as ever. [Mar 2026, p.34]