Several tracks here resemble conceptual art installations. .... But others movie in a poppier direction. .... Best of all might be "The Men Who Dance In Stags Heads". .... With help from harmonised backing vocals, woodwind countermelodies and some dreamy electronic flourishes, it somehow manages to turn this dark tale of the rural poor's response to the Industrial Revolution into something sunny, joyous and beatific. [Jun 2025, p.38]

It's noisy, riotous, guttural stuff - old-school noise rock to its core - that very much picks up where the band left off. [May 2025, p.33]

It reprises their indie-modified take on panoramic, heartland rock and synth-pop, though with little emotional impact and no clear intent. [Jun 2025, p.30]

The Road To The Sea is a blithe but bittersweet affair. [Jun 2025, p.35]

An album that feels delicately versatile, as well as a truly singular bit of leftfield art pop. [Jun 2025, p.33]

Laessig and Wolfe show their range on the soaring country soul of "Orange Blossoms" and demonstrate the difference between overwrought emoting and dynamic melodrama on "Final Days". [May 2025, p.33]

Her 10th album steps back from the literary conceits and high concepts of her last couple of albums and finds humility and grace amid the "permanent emergency" of the present. [Jun 2025, p.41]

At moments conjures Steely Dan, Little Feat and Weather Report while stretching into new territory. Constant shifts in tone, tempo and scale keep this 14-track, 90-minute opus in constant motion. [May 2025, p.31]

The delight in Sandwell's music is the way it balances pummelling rhythms with an atmospheric quality. [Jun 2025, p.39]

Packed with musical and literary references, there's a lot to unpick, but tracks like "The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)" show the band still have a knack for pop hooks, albeit not as lo-fi as before. [Jun 2025, p.70]

Elemental and beautiful. [Apr 2025, p.31]

An album of songs encompassing beguiling naivety, terse wisdom and twinkling regret. [May 2025, p.30]

Both share an inclination towards the transcendent, and Totality offers further proof they're operating on much the same wavelength. [Jun 2025, p.35]

Against all odds it works, distilling shots of Bowie, Billy Idol and inevitably, Pulp into a surprisingly potent cocktail of list and regret. [May 2025, p.35]

Ghedi expertly shapes traditional tunes, covers and dazzling originals into a deeply personal vision. [Feb 2025, p.35]

"The Outer Region Of The Universe" is an appealing ambient workout, while "Co-Pilot" is an ever-mutating bossa nova. [May 2025, p.87]

Kuti plots a way forward with the high-energy "Shotan" and "Corruption Na Stealing", his message ultimately uplifting. [May 2025, p.32]

it's a densely layered, frictional set that matches emotional heft and musical invention in equal and impressive measure. [May 2025, p.39]

One of the most compelling albums Tyler has made. .... Time Indefinite seems to stare into the heart of what the country is tight now, in all its fragmented, polarised turmoil; the state of the nation in perfect sync with Tyler's own troubled state of mind. [May 2025, p.26]

A predominantly female choir features throughout, boosting Taylor's crises of confidence on "Focus Is Power" and "What Now" into communal rallying cries. But there is fun here too. [May 2025, p.39]

The set charms and thrills. [May 2025, p.29]

Where Moor Mother's usual free jazz band Irreversible Entanglements give warm instrumental life to poem which are ultimately hopeful for change, Sumac offer grinding feedback symphonies. [May 2025, p.39]

The Great Learning Orchestra approach Ono's instruction pieces with integrity and wit. [May 2025, p.35]

Embracing his Māori heritage and language when his songwriting faltered in English has, though, taken Williams into more nakedly exposed realms. [May 2025, p.39]

The performances are entirely unmediated, taped in the open air like an old-style field recording with the cicadas and birds chirping gloriously in the background. [May 2025, p.31]

The results is both familiar and strange. [May 2025, p.33]

A further example of his fluency in the ancient, internationally shared languages of wonder and imagining. [Apr 2025, p.36]

Though the apple doesn't fall far from the electronic/art-rock tree, the writing isn't as fully realised as TVOTR's and the playing lacks their meaty resonance. [May 2025, p.27]