It's a remarkably seamless companion piece to her previous [compilation disc]. [May 2006, p.122]

Their debut's brevity and sharp hooks suggest a band with an acute sense of purpose. [Aug 2006, p.100]

They've yet to match the live genius of the [Arcade] Fire, but their album's got much more life than their static stage shows. [Aug 2006, p.95]

It's only when they change pace on "Cheated Hearts" and the equally poignant "Dudley"... that Bones makes its mark as a worthy successor to Fever. [Apr 2006, p.98]

A couple of missteps aside, this is Ghost's best since that '96 debut, Ironman. [Jun 2006, p.102]

A slickly accomplished affair, rarely inspirational. [Jul 2006, p.101]

This large, noisy album will probably satisfy Embrace enthusiasts while continuing to baffle those who can't see the point. [May 2006, p.105]

The qualities that once made The Verve the nation's top anthemists are recognisably intact on this new effort, from its stately pace to its burnished sense of grandeur. [Feb 2006, p.70]

Nobody else writes songs like Treacy. [Mar 2006, p.103]

Much of Drum's Not Dead suggests a Ligeti score for The Blair Witch Project as played by The Residents. [Mar 2006, p.88]

Feels freshly ironic and original. [Apr 2006, p.98]

What Harper's over-educated style can't replicate is his heroes' blazing souls. [Apr 2006, p.114]

An air of cheerful scepticism prevails over the 10 tracks, all bathed in the kind of dry, warm production favoured by early-'70s radio rock. [Apr 2006, p.100]

Beneath the cheery chug and carnival-like fizz beats a sombre heart. [Oct 2006, p.117]

Connoisseurs of 1972 will be forced to conclude the poor boy's got sunstroke. [May 2006, p.119]

[The] results [are] worryingly like a jam session between Ben Folds and John Bonham. [Apr 2006, p.110]

A deeply enjoyable pop-funk record. [May 2006, p.114]

Band Of Horses specialise in melodic melancholy with a sheen of hope. [May 2006, p.107]

It's clear The Essex Green have joined The New Pornographers and The Shins among indie-pop's most insinuating and accomplished bands. [Jun 2006, p.100]

Madlib stretches out impressively without vocalists to contain him, but you sense the real bangers have been saved for another occasion. [Jun 2006, p.106]

It's frequently chaotic, but instruments occasionally coalesce into unusual, oddly beautiful forms. [Jun 2006, p.112]

Touches of ska... and ethereal dream-rock... betray a penchant for late-'70s guitar experimentation, alchemised here by a brilliant pop sheen. [Jul 2004, p.101]

Morph... sounds utterly of a piece with Aja. [Apr 2006, p.104]

The likes of "Hard To Beat" and "Cash Machine" jack not just the offbeat skank and dubby bass of The Specials but some of their creeping dread and downbeat humanity as well. [Aug 2005, p.92]

The overall tone is bracingly sour but surprisingly accessible. [Apr 2006, p.98]

Throughout, Coxon's masterly musicianship and shameless enthusiasm for such modish fare pulses like an electric current. [Apr 2006, p.110]

Retains a uniform ambience of savage, unsmiling riffing. [Jun 2005, p.114]

Black Cherry this ain't, then. As a companion piece to its genius predecessor, though, Supernature iis planty to be going on with. [Sep 2005, p.108]