An hour-long piece of generative music in Discreet Music's mould. [Jul 2025, p.27]

Boy, so they know what they're doing on this whipsmart debut. [Jul 2025, p.31]

A surprisingly moving reflection of the big issues - family, death and companionship - as he processes his feelings through caustic noise and deep-flanged techno. [Ju 2025, p.31]

"No No Yes Yes" is way more an earworm than it has any right to be - but fluttery vocal flourishes ("Hell Island") and renegade horns creeping through the mire ("Golden Teachers") show there is still fun to be had at the end of the world. [Jul 2025, p.27]

Here he's in lo-fi mode, growling in a soft tenor voice over joyously jagged acoustic guitar backing. [Jul 2025, p.33]

He makes exultant use of his fellow musicians' capabilities to go out on a demented cultish high. [Jul 2025, p.36]

Little Simz' identity shines through on this bold, vibrant and genre-busting record. [Jun 2025, p.35]

Their masterpiece. .... They've matured- not like a fine wine, but maybe like a magnificently ripe Wensleydale. [Jul 2025, p.20]

A sublime debut. [Jun 2025, p.30]

An intriguing collection that reveals more of itself with every listen. [Jun 2025, p.31]

Seething electronic undercurrents dredge depths of barely concealed rage. .... And amid the storm, moments of tenderness. [Jun 2025, p.33]

Running at 33 fat-free minutes, With Tramped By Turtles is immediate evidence of their comfort as ensemble players. .... The sense is of both parties yielding to the moment, guided by instinct and decades of fluency in their respective practices. [Jul 2025, p.24]

Uncharacteristic moves brings an intriguing dimension to Berninger's inward-peering persona. [Jul 2025, p.26]

Quade's trump card is the way they balance graceful solemnity with little sparks of discontent. [May 2025, p.35]

It's a warmer, less brittle listen that still pushes at production conventions. [Jul 2025, p.26]

[The album is littered with songs that are grand, detailed and ambitious. [Jun 2025, p.39]

Even when the sonic mood broods on "Radical", the optimistic sentiments (quoted in the album title) reflect a creative force in rude force. [Jul 2025, p.27]

At times it's too MOTR for its own good, verging on easy listening - but who would blame these two, 82 and 73 respectively, for kicking back in the autumn of their years. [Jun 2025, p.39]

Contains some of their most objectively beautiful songs. [Jun 2025, p.41]

Instant Holograms... offers a kind of manual on how to resist the negativity and reconnect with society. Alternatively, it's another super-fun Stereolab album full of obscure synth blurps, nifty lounge-pop tunes and gnarly motorik wig-outs. Either way, you won't be disappointed. [Jun 2025, p.24]

We have properly zippy bangers for the moshpit in Atomic Revelations, These Scars Won't Define Us and the monstrous Addicted To Pain - but there's exploration aplenty here, abd the band sound all the better for it. [Jun 2025, p.103]

A deliciously bubbling cauldron seasoned with ladles of Scott Walker melodrama and a generously pinch of Bowie-inspired balladry. [May 2025, p.33]

The playing is as eloquent as ever, dextrous but never overtly showy, while Richard Wats' voice delivers a pleasingly plaintive yearn. [Jun 2025, p.41]

The dilapidated English fairground has served as a metaphor for the vicissitudes of the music business for everyone from Ray Davies to Kevin Ayers, but it's rarely been so vividly, furiously and poignantly realised. [Jun 2025, p.35]

Easy listening it's not, yet there's defiance, too ("You Mustn't Show Weakness") and even transcendence ("A World Of Love And Care") before Furman ends with a posutively harrowing cover of Alex Walton's emotionally fraught "I Need The Angel". [May 2025, p.31]

They're following their "first thought" instincts while allowing space for the full expression of Garbus's mighty soul voice. [Jun 2025, p.41]

Poetic ruminations largely accompanied by sparse piano and string quartet ("Coming Home", "Time To Go"), with the occasional curious detour. [Jun 2025, p.39]

The wistful allure of the heady old days is strong as he ponders the sacred but mostly the profane alongside a fiery Lisa O'Neill on "Poca Mahoney's". But he also finds slapdash inspiration on his doorstep in bucolic Normandy. [Jun 2025, p.31]