The DIY production can smother their delicate melodicism, and those parping horns can sound distinctly cheap and shrill. [Jan 2002, p.131]

Another masterclass in deft guitar picking, smudged with piano, harmonica and a voice like honey drizzled onto a dry creekbed. [Jun 2003, p.93]

"Say Valley Maker" and "Rock Bottom Riser" are hypnotic highpoints, but best of all is "Diamond Dancer," an incongruous slice of hillbilly funk on which he channels his inner Gil-Scott Heron. [Jun 2010, p.83]

The ferocious cauldron of funk guitars, stinging horns, simmering grooves and incendiary, politicized lyrics departs little from Fela's trademark style, but is delivered with a spiky aggression that entirely justifies the album's title. [May 2011, p.94]

A refreshing badass entry to a genre whose purveyors tend to be overly mild-mannered. [Jan 2014, p.79]

It's an inspired rather than gimmicky conceit. [Feb 2015, p.71]

Compton is a solid reminder of both Dre's skills and the depth of his contacts book. [Nov 2015, p.75]

Jambu is the best starting point, a genuinely revelatory voyage through the mythic sounds of the Amazon. [Aug 2019, p.90]

If 2020 confirms anything, it's the breadth of what Magik Markers can do, within what might read like constraints. [Nov 2020, p.36]

Delicious desolation. [Mar 2022, p.23]

Four albums in, feels like Marr is finally settled into the business of a solo career. [Mar 2022, p.31]

Louis O'Bryen and Asha Lorenz paint a drunker, more heartbroken picture of twentysomething romance on this downbeat sequel. [Nov 2022, p.36]

The result is a rich, expansive yet considered album of indie rock meets shoegaze. [Aug 2025, p.32]

They're still a little too in thrall to the obvious precursors to take flight, but there are some great, clanging pop songs here, too. [May 2016, p.78]

His finest album yet. [Nov 2015, p.70]

A glowering inferno. [Mar 2019, p.24]

For the most part, this Stockholm outfit's sun-streaked, clever-white-boy pop-funk catches a season as expusitely as Air did circa Moon Safari, or as Hot Chip have more recently. [Aug 2006, p.104]

Their music is accruing more bewitching, dramatic layers. [Jul 2016, p.71]

Despite the sombre circumstances, J.T. is a celebratory affair, the elder man bringing a hymnal ruggedness "Far Away In Another Town" and a hearty hoedown spirit to "I Don't Care." [Feb 2021, p.27]

The 51-year-old family man's struggles with depression and anxiety bring unrelenting urgency to the album. [Jan 2023, p.15]

Respect is due--such is their musical vigor, PJ make it sound like it all really matters. [Sep 2009, p.90]

It is a remarkably assured piece of work, gracefully furnished and artfully wrought. [Feb 2017, p.36]

At times, it's like an architectural drawing. But the repetitions soothe and tease, and then you start to hear the leaves. [Aug 2013, p.78]

It's hard, then, not to view My Days Of 58 as among his most transparently autobiographical works, as brimming with self-scrutiny and pontification as it is elegant wordplay. [Mar 2026, p.26]

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

Calling this Wells' pop album does a disservice to its cheerfully experimental tone. [Aug 2014, p.76]

In The Pink Of Condition is very much Evans' own. [Mar 2015, p.77]

This careful layering of old and new, east and west, has something of the forensic deliberation of post-rock experimentation about it, but songs like "For Everything That You Lost" and "They Keep Silence," which evokes Killing Joke, are thrilling in their intensity. [Aug 2016, p.77]