A groovy, engaging listen. [Mar 2016, p.83]

Plaza, finds them bedding down with a more cautious and concise approach. [Mar 2016, p.78]

Another reliably excellent offering. [Mar 2016, p.82]

Love Yes is a dazzling electronic set that throbs with energy and emits a sensual glow befitting its focus on love, desire and sexuality. [Mar 2016, p.81]

Brave, challenging and arrestingly original. [Mar 2016, p.79]

The cod-mystical lyrics to tracks such as "Infinite Sun" and "Mountain Lifter" suggest that embers of the hippy-dippy sitar rockers survive, but a short, Hare Krishna-style sitar and acoustic guitar chant called "Hari Bol (The Sweetest Sweet)" suggests that dear old Crispian has an awareness of his own ridiculousness. [Mar 2016, p.75]

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

A blurring of fictionalised murder ballads and heartfelt break-up songs, Feed The Fire clothes breathy, emotive vocals in weeping strings, tremolo guitar twangs and ethereal electronica. [Mar 2016, p.78]

Tasteful stuff, for sure, but The Gamble could take a few more risks. [Mar 2016, p.77]

Haunting songs rooted in old-time country, Southern Gothic and humming electric ambience. [Mar 2016, p.72]

There's no shortage of melancholy here, but it's of an understated and universal kind. [Mar 2016, p.74]

It's an absolute belter if you like your R'n'B raw, red-blooded and defiantly vintage. [Mar 2016, p.75]

His solo debut respects the US traditions that nourish him while reflecting his own history. [Mar 2016, p.82]

His eighth sticks largely to the template. [Mar 2016, p.69]

Their second album is a little too comfortable. [Mar 2016, p.73]

With Suicide's spooked primitivism and Depeche Mode's throbbing anguish as blueprints, Sartain's synthesised shock treatment is a compelling segue from his spartan rockin' past. [Mar 2016, p.78]

Among the handful of minor gems, the title track is particularly ravishing. [Mar 2016, p.71]

This is the work of a star-crossed original in full flow. [Mar 2016, p.73]

The M Ward-produced Livin' On A High Note is a wonderfully chiselled Stax forgery. [Mar 2016, p.80]

Most of the artists here, among them Moby, Miike Snow and Cibo Matto, find rich source material at the melodic end of her catalogue. [Mar 2016, p.77]

The results are suitably polishes, but their pleasures are ephemeral. [Mar 2016, p.71]

The result is typically elegant and--perhaps surprisingly, given the circumstances--uplifting work about the affairs of the heart. [Mar 2016, p.80]

Painting With is striking because it manages to distill the essence of Animal Collective into 12 slices of bite-sized psych-pop that have the punchy immediacy of a Ramones album. [Mar 2016, p.65]

For all Keely's best intents though, Original Machines falls short of genuine enlightenment; simultaneously too much and not enough. [Mar 2016, p.75]

If this is a window to his world, we can barely see a thing. [Mar 2016, p.76]

On occasion, the chintziness of the production undermines Maine's sentiment, but at least now he's learning to be himself. [Mar 2016, p.77]

Cinematic in scope, ruthlessly ambitious in execution, this is not easy listening. [Mar 2016, p.82]

Due to Joe Dilworth's propulsive drumming and Holger Zaf's synth work, these 12 tracks never stray into stuffiness. [Mar 2016, p.71]