Decidedly heady stuff. [Jul 2007, p.100]

If it's a little predictable, it's still easy on the ears. [Jul 2007, p.127]

Witty like Loudon Wainwright, doleful like Jonathan Richman, Hamilton emerges as a distinct presence throughout, and it's this you warm to. [Dec 2006, p.102]

Repeated listens--it's a grower--reveal a number of meatier, surprisingly hard-rocking songs. [May 2007, p.99]

She's rarely sounded more alive. [Jun 2007, p.92]

Aggressive bursts of noise and fantastic harmonic singing make this record sound like the result of a happy accident rather than a long-pondered academic exercise. [Apr 2007, p.94]

While what was lost with Smith is immeasurable, what he left was amazing, and New Moon is an appropriately spectacular monument. [Jun 2007, p.112]

Amiably lightweight. [Jun 2007, p.115]

Sometimes, in hunting a mid-point between noise maelstrom and Espers-style chamber psychedelia, Fields come out sounding merely ordinary. [May 2007, p.90]

Tigers... sees the brain of the Manics reunited with their strongest qualities: their heart, humanity and soul. [Jun 2007, p.102]

The third outstanding album of his career. [Mar 2007, p.103]

American Doll Posse sounds like a return to more conventional songwriting form. [Jun 2007, p.87]

BRMC seem invincible; or back to their searing best, at any rate. [May 2007, p.87]

It's a darker, deeper affair. [Jun 2007, p.94]

All the elements are there, but somehow 5:55 doesn't gel as it should. [Oct 2006, p.124]

An album that shines light, albeit dimly, into hidden corners of the soul. [May 2007, p.100]

Several of the songs seem performed out of affection rather than any sense of artistic adventure. [May 2007, p.90]

Favourite Worst Nightmare is a near-triumph, a far superior Album #2 than Meat Is Murder, The Libertines, or Second Coming. Yet some doubts nag, partly because of the subject matter. [May 2007, p.84]

No doubt Oyamada has a fine ear for sound design, but he handles his tunes with antiseptic gloves. [May 2007, p.88]

Surprisingly invigorated. [May 2007, p.89]

Why, when Dragonforce are doing this for real? [May 2007, p.96]

Bristl[es] with wit, energy and nifty hooks. [May 2007, p.99]

Unsettling stuff--but weirdly life-affirming, too. [May 2007, p.103]

A successful fusion of tradition and modernism.

This treads the thin line between appealing whimsy and finicky, smartypants noodling. [Jun 2007, p.111]

Nothing sounds more dated than an ageing futurist, and it's only when Trent cuts loose... that we get a glimpse of the world-beater we know he can be. [May 2007, p.103]

These 11 new songs will do little to dispel the view that the band are fatally addicted to self-indulgent navel-gazing, but it's still beautifully recorded, and played with exquisite tact and precision. [May 2007, p.88]

The Grinderman hat seems to have tilted the basic Bad Seeds stance brilliantly on its side, bringing out a new humour and a grumpy-old-rocker gravitas. [Apr 2007, p.102]