While everything is played with gusto and the songs themselves are well constructed, the album perhaps lacks enough surprises or detours from its sturdy formula to make it especially memorable. [May 2014, p.80]

Sleeper Agent rise to the occasion on their major-label debut. [May 2014, p.80]

The Vienna-based Londoner who lurks behind the Sohn alias coins a wintry brand of high-tech electro-soul on this striking debut. [May 2014, p.80]

She's actually more effective when slowing things things down a notch. [May 2014, p.77]

This is actually their most enjoyable record in ages, largely because it draws together recurring Laibach themes. [May 2014, p.77]

An album that feels joyously cathartic as well as musically stunning. [May 2014, p.76]

The duo of Matt Carlon on Modular synthesiser and Joanthan Sielaff on bass clarinet, are onto something with Seer. [May 2014, p.74]

Salad days is goofy but sweet guitar pop in the vein of Jonathan Richman, occasionally somewhat lightweight but delivered with a crooked smile that's quite endearing. [May 2014, p.73]

Anderson's voice keeps songs like "Smoulder" feeling raw and human. [May 2014, p.73]

Slasher House is not so different to the last Animal Collective album, 2012's bristly Centipede Hz. [May 2014, p.69]

Small Town Heroes is the band's fifth and best album. [May 2014, p.68]

His leftfield takes on protest soul have been ditched in favour of pick'n'mix revivalism and banal inspirational platitudes. [May 2014, p.67]

You wish the pace would pick up after a while but then again, what My Sad Captains do, they do beautifully. [Apr 2014, p.78]

Vermont find unexpected warmth in the almost mathematical precision of these restrained but seductive instrumentals. [Apr 2014, p.83]

Essential and sublime. [Mar 2014, p.76]

Langford, as ever, masterfully mixes the personal, the political and the poetic. [Apr 2014, p.77]

Old Fears is entirely worth your concentration. [Apr 2014, p.81]

Sinclair's knack for storytelling, wordplay and a warm voice carry sufficient wit and energy to ride the jazzy undercurrent. [Apr 2014, p.81]

A stew of attractive singalong folk pop that looks to evocative kitchen sink drama for lyrical inspiration. [Feb 2014, p.83]

They have finally assembled a terrific debut full of scuzzed up guitars, dirty synths, nihilistic lyrics and wood's magnificently bored--though never boring--vocals.[Apr 2014, p.71]

Motion files nicely alongside Fripp & Eno, or Klaus Schulze, a set of rippling, drowsy circuitry, laminated with silvery guitar drones. [Apr 2014, p.76]

Their full engagement in the creative task was never in doubt, and more than 40 years later the result compels close listening. [Apr 2014, p.88]

DNA plus inspiration can be a potent combination. [Apr 2014, p.69]

No range of light here, just a wan glow that denies the need for shade. [Apr 2014, p.71]

Remarkably, almost every performance resonates. [Apr 2014, p.83]

These are songs to be treasured. [Apr 2014, p.73]

The second album by this East London singer sees her moving away from the orthodox jazz trio and expanding her sonic palette. [Feb 2014, p.77]

A Dietrich pour nos jours. [Apr 2014, p.80]