It's his best yet. [Jun 2020, p.38]

No shortage of flamboyant tunes. [Jun 2020, p.27]

Ejimiwe has made a record filled with quiet bubbling tension yet also leaves room for lightness, offering a glimmer of hope amid the brooding dread. [Jun 2020, p.29]

The sheer depth of ideas is impressive, but the result is exhausting. [Jun 2020, p.33]

The songwriter digs into the sound of his intense inner voice here. [Jun 2020, p.33]

He and the band skillfully avoid any notion of contrivance, instead bending these vintage styles to persuasive effect. [May 2020, p.28]

Lynne's rawest, most intimately person album since I Am Shelby Lynne broke with her country roots 20 years ago. [Jun 2020, p.34]

The results move their sound on significantly. The radical honesty of the lyrics is key. [Jun 2020, p.29]

It feels more like a bedroom project than their recent full-band work, yet Toledo's knack for an irresistible choruses endures. [Jun 2020, p.28]

Halo's assertive pieces, with Oliver Coates on cello, heighten the experience. [Jun 2020, p.29]

As dazzling as it is diverse. [May 2020, p.25]

Highlights are the playfully bobbing rhythms of "Geruhsam" and epic closer "Aus Weiter Ferne," a masterful interplay of harmonic sweetness and menacing drone. [May 2020, p.32]

A little too polite in places, O'Donnell's piano-and-strings pastorals deepen in gravitas with repeat listens. [May 2020, p.31]

While the straight guitar-janglers sometimes border on generic, the eerie psych-rock incantation "Red Virginia Creeper" and the clanging, reverb-drenched barbs of "Charm And Tedium" prove more rewarding. [Jun 2020, p.29]

Several nuggets of power-pop excellence here that rank with the best on 2002's Lapalco. [May 2020, p.23]

10 duets of intricate stringed alchemy. [May 2020, p.27]

The title track;s urgent strums are more claustrophobic, while "Shaking"'s jangles are more prosaic. Largely, though, she's as refreshingly carefree as her lyrics are empowering. [Jun 2020, p.29]

The Don of Diamond Dreams finds Butler's effect-treated voice rippling through a prism of mutated funk and R&B that feels simultaneously sumptuous and deeply unconventional. [Jun 2020, p.37]

Erratic but still occasionally sublime. [Jun 2020, p.37]

There's nothing mediocre here. [Jun 2020, p.34]

A more mature expression of self-understanding. [Jun 2020, p.34]

A rich, gothic record, steeped in sensuality. [Jun 2020, p.29]

A bit long it may be, but his 10th studio album packs a punch while light on its feet. [Jun 2020, p.29]

Antarctica is leaner then Flat Worms, and if the tunes don't hit quite as hard, then at least the smart lyrics are easier to catch. [Jun 2020, p.29]

A powerful eulogy. [Jun 2020, p.28]

The shouty threesome's hit-rate is good. [Jun 2020, p.27]

It's been a gradual recalibration and Songs For Our Daughter ruffles more of Marling's characteristic composure: she's feeling the breeze, focused, pressing keenly forward. [Jun 2020, p.24]

She writes about toxic masculinity and abusive relationships with racing candour, and she sings with a fresh, unnerving snarl that weaponises her signature twang. [May 2020, p.35]