The third suffers from a bit of improv cliche in its fox-sex vocals, but the central melodic theme is robust enough to return for a warm-hearted final track. [Sep 2014, p.73]

The most straightforward of Oldham's catalogue, and yet still rich with the oneiric and mysterious qualities that drew so many listeners to his art. [Apr 2026, p.20]

Simultaneously rooted and rootless, we might call the results Otherworld Music. [Feb 2018, p.35]

A blast. [Sep 2010, p.92]

A first half of pop-punk nuggets.... The second half, though, is more reflective and psychedelic although still in thrall to Big Star and Teenage Fanclub. [Jan 2015, p.75]

Not an easy listen, but an accomplished one. [Dec 2013, p.67]

A seriously strong debut. [Mar 2016, p.80]

Ives Sepulveda's vocals can be a little puny, but the music is full of clever twists and suddenly blossoming choruses. [Mar 2013, p.73]

An immersive and texturally rich listen. [Jun 2017, p.37]

There are no retrospective documentaries or scholarly essays to help unpack one of U2's most conceptually rich works. This cautious, conservative repackage may not diminish the greatness of the original album, but it does sell it short. [Jul 2017, p.46]

Glitter And Doom Live is an admirable document of yet another stage in his continually engrossing career.

Night Music, the debut solo LP from Zombie-Zombie's Etienne Jaumet offers proof that there's more to analogue synth than kitsch retro-futurist appeal. [Jan 2010, p. 124]

Gelb's semi-surreal observations lace things together. [Jun 2015, p.77]

Real Life... is a triumphant return to the dancefloor. [Feb 2010, p.90]

Difficult to pin down, Hidden is even harder to forget. [Feb 2010, p.104]

You could praise individual moments... but it's the overall weave, the daydreamy drift, that impresses. A 40-minute swoon of a record. [Jul 2004, p.112]

Tough, yet seductive. [Oct 2016, p.40]

It's solemn stuff. [Oct 2016, p.39]

Stevens' strumming often has an unworldly quality that transcends folk archetypes. [Apr 2004, p.92]

This is bold, imaginative, and, on occasion, deliciously strange. [Nov 2016, p.32]

Trouble is a typically tender, casually contemplative, occasionally tearful goodbye. [Nov 2014, p.72]

It's her first record that could be a classic rather than just name-checking a bunch of them. [Dec 2015, p.70]

Everything now seems as worn out and used up as Lytle's subjects, along with the imagery that brings them to life. [Jun 2006, p.108]

That [the innocence of an idyllic childhood] was suddenly shattered when Lynne's father shot her mother and then himself, referenced with unsettling dispassion in "Heaven's Only Days Down The Road," renders the album's surrounding tender moments all the more heart-wrenching. [Nov 2011, p.91]

Some of Deerhunter's prettiest songs to date. [Feb 2019, p.13]

Big Boi's absurd--and absurdly dextrous--verbiage knits it all together handsomely. [Sep 2010, p.85]

Worth catching. [Jun 2007, p.87]

Her most orthodox album, perhaps, and by some distance her best. [Dec 2013, p.68]