An astonishingly primal album. [Aug 2006, p.93]

Finds her plumbing new depths of pomposity. [Aug 2006, p.84]

Only the softer songs... display any of the heartbroken mystique that once made Carrabba compelling. [Sep 2006, p.79]

You wish Neil and Chris had hooked up with a younger, switched-on, even more sympathetic producer. [Jun 2006, p.110]

Time that could have been spent on cultivating studied cool, a la The Bravery, appears to have been wisely invested in memorable songs. [Jul 2006, p.101]

Keith's interaction with his producers is minimal, and his creative control so thin that vocal parts often sound like samples. [Sep 2006, p.79]

These tracks feel less like performances than private reveries on which the listener eavesdrops. [Aug 2006, p.108]

This is the most powerful, literate and just plain individual British debut album since The Streets' Original Pirate Material. [Jul 2006, p.94]

Much of it is endurance-defyingly dull. [Jul 2006, p.84]

It's her most enjoyable record yet. [Jul 2006, p.92]

In truth, only an uncharitable curmudgeon could fail to appreciate Tim Rice-Oxley's vastly improved pop songwriting. [Jul 2006, p.102]

Stately, thoughtful balladry. [Jun 2006, p.115]

A fantastic hybrid of Spacemen 3 and Deep South voodoo. [Oct 2006, p.99]

While he recreates his past modes, he can't recapture the audacious conceits or raptures of Liberation and Promenade. [Jul 2006, p.90]

For better, and for worse, this is a band who still haven't figured out who they are. [Jul 2006, p.95]

Like mid-'80s Scritti Politti, News And Tributes is pop music made by young men loath to sell their intelligence down the river. [Jun 2006, p.114]

An unqualified triumph. [Jun 2006, p.122]

With The Warning, they've willed themselves beyond bathos by sincerely embracing their English art-pop sensibilities. [Jun 2006, p.103]

Her keenest yet. [Jul 2006, p.108]

[El-P's] sinister, scarified industrial noise and beats bring a grimly thrilling dimension. [Jul 2006, p.102]

Rhymes hasn't sounded this energised in years. [Sep 2006, p.76]

A mighty blend of doomy, Jansch-ish meander and sepulchral drones. [Jul 2006, p.92]

Several tracks are up with their best. [Jul 2006, p.88]

Spektor's biggest-hearted, clearest-minded effort yet--achieved, thankfully, without sacrificing any of her wonderful weirdness. [Aug 2006, p.111]

Contains flashes of his finest work. [Aug 2006, p.84]

Son's patchwork of fluttering loops and vocal delays align Molina with kindred spirits Animal Collective, though her listless delivery can dull proceedings. [Jun 2006, p.106]

Evident is a sizeable debt to '80s electropop. [Aug 2006, p.84]

It's an album, like most teenagers, that is sometimes awkward and exhausting, but also joyous, un-jaded, and bursting at the seams with promise. [Apr 2006, p.114]